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By Jack Joseph Smith

Basketball Sometimes it is good to have your feet on the ground Telling the truth, most of the time it isn't We know that ninety percent of making a hoop is looking the other way, getting back and looking at at has got to be as quick as you can get It is good if someone else scored, but it is alot better when they know that your the one who sent them the ball I didn't see any clerity across the court; it was all instinct that tapped my on the shoulder

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker describes passing and scoring through instinct, with a final admission about the limits of seeing across the court.

The speaker values another player's basket and the recognition of the person who passed the ball. In the ending, the speaker credits instinct with a tap on the shoulder. The handwritten clerity retains the source spelling in the account of seeing across the court.

Claude

In 'Basketball' the speaker says 'ninety percent / of making a hoop is looking / the other way' and that scoring is 'alot better / when they know that your the / one who sent them the ball'. The page ends 'I didn't see any clerity across / the court; it was all instinct / that tapped my on the shoulder'.

The poem values the assist over the score and credits the pass to instinct rather than vision. Its plain, conversational typed lines are revised by hand at the climax, where 'anything cross' is struck and 'any clerity across' written above.