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By Jack Joseph Smith

UP AT The Top of painting down OR AT The bottom being by of going up -- Choquel TO - otherwise being getting up by being VAN GOGH down In between been agony, our hair still lookin' at the middle To know it an Think of Michael Angelo as only up a down

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The page is a vertical, handwritten meditation on up, down, painting, Choquel, Van Gogh, and how art can become bodily and spatial at once.

Its brokenness helps the poem. Rather than describing a stable scene, it keeps flipping orientation, making perception itself feel as precarious as balance and direction.

Claude

A directional poem played entirely on 'up' and 'down' — Choquel, Michelangelo, no underwear, agony in the middle — collapsing high and low art into the same physical gesture.