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By Jack Joseph Smith
And there is eight
in a row
who have noticed
The Exidrmity A Diamond
of my being, in the Rough
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The handwritten fragment imagines eight observers noticing a rough diamond within the speaker's being.
Its corrected reading makes the page feel like a compressed self-portrait. Recognition matters, but the value being recognized is still rough, partly hidden, and dependent on the speaker's own unusual phrasing.