By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Without power, the page turns violence into thought, function, gesture, and plan, treating killing as something displaced rather than erased.
The corrected transcript makes the poem's restraint more legible. It keeps returning to small actions and abstractions, suggesting that a lack of power does not end destructive intent so much as lengthen and reroute it.
Without power. What is to be done — killing is removed; less is more needs function. Lifting the eyebrow; cutting clean at the sink with a thought; glimmering yes to kill without power. The plan is only longer.