By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The poem treats love as stripped of sorrow and glory while the speaker remains drawn toward an impossible person whose beauty, laughter, and returning flight keep pulling him back.
Its tension comes from contradiction: ugly body and beautiful brain, wanting and impossibility, running away and coming back in. The handwritten correction on `sorrow` matters because the page's opening negations set the emotional terms for the desire that follows.
A page about beauty-in-impossibility. Not a serve of love, not a glory. Trying to make an epigram while listening to the beautiful brain ugly in the body. The one who runs away from rain, comes back in, laughs again — catch my eye and my sin.