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By Jack Joseph Smith

Being cautious I thought I saw Jonny Caucauous On the 4th street of Anchorge, Alaska I remembered down following the flats for a future beer like a chase on the past of a women you've never seen In the dark we'd robbed a whore house near Vancover, but when the gutar sang on every drunken morn, we had penutbutter on the tongue of a sharred jar for breakfast That's all as we ran down the coast to accost the considered dead life through our adventagous world We really only saw the wind as a way After the Carnival keep us off the nice mountain county jails shingled ham And forced the possibility of bad iron open because of shaved heads and dubed lied eyes explaining their firm desire to go back turf Easy to recognize Blond and tight Big enough to make being fast useable The Levi, the soft thick shirt The women made shoes that don't care, while pretending to work but from the top is of the mind in the knowledge of attire Across the street I moved behind my lost sight at first like assurance trusting the next step to vision Causious swaggerred at a pace that the street slow could still remember, and he obviously had nothing in his pockets, but eyes on a dream before me that didn't drink i touched (not on the shoulder After so many miles there were so many others I shrank I did never to run around to see his (face) Casuse those who don't wander any longer, still want greatest ghosts to make likewise at it again (which means going back) from Alaska

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Seeing Jonny Caucauous on an Alaskan street recalls travel, a robbery near Vancover, shared food and jails. A hesitant approach to the figure ends with ghosts, going back and the words from Alaska.

Clothing and swagger allow recognition before the speaker moves behind lost sight and describes a touch. The handwritten parenthetical going back connects the street scene with the wish to make wandering happen again. It does not name a southward destination.


Claude

Titled 'Being cautious', the page opens 'I thought I saw Jonny Caucauous / On the 4th street of Anchorge, Alaska' and recalls a robbed whore house 'near Vancover', 'penutbutter' eaten from 'a sharred jar' and running 'down the coast'. The speaker follows the swaggering figure, revises the encounter to 'i touched (not on the shoulder', shrinks from seeing 'his / (face)', and closes with a pencil note '(which means / going back) / from Alaska'.

The typed draft moves through memory by loose association, from beer and jails to clothes and attire, before returning to the street sighting. The handwritten changes to the title, the touch and the coda show the author reconsidering both caution and contact, and the last lines tie wandering to wanting 'greatest ghosts' again.