By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page frames new trouble through hurt, the old wound in Jesus, work, war, sickness, and a noisy bridge from which people watch.
The corrected transcript keeps the page's rough theology intact: hurt is both intimate and social, tied to Christ's body but also to conduct, disorder, and sickness. The last phrase, 'not necessarly him,' leaves the trouble suspended between divine figure and collective human noise.
'New Trouble' deliberately reopens an ancient wound: 'You hurt / How about / The old wound in Jesus / And let's make it worse'. The hurt is escalated and depersonalized - 'Serious hurt, / Off a first name basis' - even as it stays 'On the way to the way of Christ'. The page catalogs suffering as both willed and civic: 'Hurt on purpose, / work and war and disorderily conduct', set 'Still as the Sun' and 'all about the body of Christ'. It ends with a careful theological hedge, watching 'from the bridge / of our noise' at a 'new trouble' that is 'not necessarly him' - human disorder, not the divine figure itself. Source spellings ('disorderily', 'necessarly') are preserved.