By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page starts as a masculine call to rise, dress, and inherit the fathers' ritual order, then undercuts it with anticlimax and drunkenness.
Its energy comes from that collapse. The first movement sounds almost ceremonial, full of ties, boots, fathers, and the greeting sun, but the ending drains the script of dignity by admitting that nothing was actually done except getting drunk.
Sedlin's ceremonial summons to 'rise and wake with / the greeting sun', tie ties and strap boots and 'do the / things our fathers / used to do', collapses in the flat coda 'Didnt do any thing / just got dronk', draining the ritual of dignity.