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By Jack Joseph Smith

would surely gAiN oN his brain a bait concerning his seagoing fate, And maybe this American might make that Mate wonder about the fucker that wanted his ass up on the stake Your crazy called the headstockman down And what about Mam spoke out the seamen all around She's in pain and five holes down from the sun without a gun They voted to beat her to death I was a foreigner now switched out of the power When a young student of Archecture spoke up in measure "On the murder of Mam, we must make a pledge to work no more for these bums of men. To now bucket up THIS dung would MAKE MEMORY A cowards hell. "to tEll."

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker imagines holding the officers accountable, then recounts Mam's death and a student's pledge to refuse further work.

The speaker moves from the stockman's accusation of craziness to the seamen's concern for Mam. The student's speech links her killing with a refusal of labor. The densely revised ending limits any reading of the exact pledge.

Claude

Continuing the Mam episode, the seamen ask 'And what about Mam' and are told 'She's in pain'. Then 'They voted to beat her to death', and a 'young student of Archecture' calls for a pledge 'to work no more for these / bums of men'.

The page sets the crowd's vote to kill the sheep against the student's call for a strike. The closing pledge is unfinished and keeps its revisions, so its exact wording stays provisional.