By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page frames love and instinct as forces that break, lengthen, and unsettle the speaker, ending with handwritten fragments that push the typed meditation toward revision or afterthought.
The poem keeps its odd spellings and phrasing close to the scan: 'My turr,' 'Think with you gut,' and the handwritten 'Goth And wot' all matter as texture. The final handwritten 'ARE, ARE NOW' changes the ending from a clean typed statement into a more immediate correction.
'Time Won't Let Me' yokes the sacred and the gruff in its opening - 'Aregious and holy / My turr never turned / To your touch' - and gives love a wounding logic: 'Love is the last thing you know / It breaks you first / And rises as you see yourself / let go by'. The speaker claims a guarded autonomy ('I love nature / But I walk away / Any time I want') and pushes a plainspoken creed - 'Think with you gut / It is Hemmingway good' - that lengthens experience: 'Young or old it makes moments long'. The handwritten tail ('Goth And wot', 'ARE, ARE NOW') is where the poem spills off the typed register into raw correction. Source spellings ('Aregious', 'turr', 'Hemmingway') are preserved.