By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
"Robb''in" turns a close call into a rush of disbelief, boulevard debris, dreamlike honey, guns, and a return toward a wanted river.
The corrected reading makes the page more coherent without smoothing its rough language. Robbery becomes a moving scene of shock and escape, where the body of the poem keeps sliding between accident, violence, and remembered desire.
'Robb''in' renders a heist as a blur of shock and flight. It opens on a near miss - 'It was so close / She houted / I can't believe it' - amid 'The wonder / with the loss of trees' and 'The bracelet left on the bulvard,' a dropped prize dismissed as 'beer and the least of the dream.' The getaway turns dreamlike and sweet: 'Rolling like honny out of a gallion tin.' Then violence and momentum take over: 'We went through the stop / And I rember the guns blowing us / all the way back to the river / we wanted any way' - so even the gunfire seems to carry them where desire already pointed. The kept spellings 'houted,' 'bulvard,' 'honny,' 'gallion,' and 'rember' keep the scene rough and rushed.