By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Addressed to Liza, the page sounds decisive and forward-moving: the speaker rejects wasteful travel talk, says coming to her is settled, and ends with the plain declaration that his mind is made up.
The cleaned transcript makes the poem read as a direct statement of commitment. The lower handwritten flourish has been checked against the scan and treated as a non-body mark, so the typed poem carries the confirmed reading.
'Liza' is a decision-poem of arrival: 'The solar system / Cross over you,' and against that cosmic backdrop the speaker renounces wandering - 'suggestions / of travel is money wasted' - because 'Coming to you is not a tough question.' Resolve hardens line by line, 'I have settled it / and I am on my way,' until 'Imposibilities have left / My mind is made up.' This reading remains provisional because the page transcript is OCR-uncertain (mixed quality band) and not all marks are settled, but the through-line of fixed commitment is clear.