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By Jack Joseph Smith

The New Wheel In the market Advertures from everywhere Thousands making one stupid about language and theatre Great moment of buying Are a slip of the tongue, as an animal in the wilderness really knows your talking to yourself definately includes him And what is the change Between pretending your rich, or pretending your poor, when availability... is losing both homes One who sheads his head and looks for shadows began with a need for light Pittsburgh is too European to die outright in And the real old men alone? The mist is to close to wander off through it And so redemption watches Karma grabbing at its species:

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The New Wheel moves from a market and buying to performances of wealth and poverty, old men in Pittsburgh, mist, redemption, and Karma.

The speaker asks what changes when people pretend to be rich or poor while losing both homes. The later images of shadows and mist leave that question unsettled.

Claude

Under the typed title 'The New Wheel', loose lines move from 'In the market' and 'Advertures from everywhere' through buying, pretending 'your rich, / or pretending your poor,' and a man who 'sheads his head and looks for shadows'. The page ends with 'Pittsburgh is too European / to die outright in' and 'redemption watches / Karma grabbing at its species:'.

The poem is a collage of commerce, pretence and survival, with the market and theatre as images of performance. Its closing turn to redemption and karma gives the scattered lines a moral frame, and the final colon leaves the thought open.