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By Jack Joseph Smith
I Saw Frank
and Jesus
Each Once
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Frank and Jesus appear together as rare, singular encounters.
Placing a familiar person and a sacred figure in the same structure collapses ordinary memory and revelation. The line feels casual on the surface, but its comparison is startling.
A three-line handwritten statement - 'I Saw Frank / and Jesus / Each Once' - that distills the collection's twin obsessions into a single flat claim of witness. The casual 'Each Once' equates a celebrity sighting with a vision of Christ, treating both as rare, equal apparitions and leaving the reader to feel the jolt of that equation. As a spare handwritten page it reads as a caption or premise more than a developed poem.