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By Jack Joseph Smith

SUrf wAvE brEAKs whEN wAvE brEAKs twicE thE hEight At thE SPAcE bEtwEEN thE SEA surfAcE ANd thE ocEAN fLOOr Now is the time for all Thr wing off to water, it had a swmimming Nicely it was meet by the mouth of the albertroash We wore no gloves in the south Seas It was strangely intellectual in a place that means body The whole trip at the night helm the jib No LOVE To think about death on a cruse Has nothing to do with floating with porkchops on the ocean He had a maginificent grin The devil who had wondered into the perfected way As he fourteen sang his way into National Geografic I held back alot on the deck And had to bare a Captain on the sea Who loved Ann Rand OCT. 1968 Robin LEE Graham KAhoNA - HAwAiiAN ANciENt priEsts YANANA - North ShorE

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker recalls a South Seas voyage, a night helm, thoughts of death and a captain who loved Ann Rand. Separate notes concern surf, an October 1968 reference and Hawaiian names.

The speaker places a grinning voyager beside restraint on deck and an intellectual experience of a place associated with the body. The marginal notes do not establish a chronology or identify the speaker.

Claude

A handwritten wave note, 'SUrf wAvE brEAKs whEN / wAvE brEAKs twicE thE hEight', then a typed sea poem beginning 'Thr wing off to water, it had a swmimming'. It includes 'We wore no gloves in the south Seas' and ends 'And had to bare a Captain on the sea / Who loved Ann Rand'. Handwritten notes add 'OCT. 1968', 'Robin LEE Graham' and two Hawaiian glossary lines.

The poem mixes awe at the ocean ('a place that means body') with friction aboard. The marginal 'No / LOVE' and the names are notes whose links to the poem are provisional.