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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
"Adem and Eve" fuses the rib, attraction, dying and beginning, scripture, species, lost intimacy, friends and family, and the plea to be made a queen.
The corrected transcript makes the handwritten revisions important rather than incidental. MOREOVER sharpens the social turn from watched intimacy to family, while Before the/Caring turns the final plea into a more explicit threshold before care or dependence.
Adam and Eve. You know that place, the rib — Mine to be more attractive than his. When your dying one is the beginning of both of the Bibles — a shout in the universe, the first one, transcendance of that particular lung lost to us. Simpatia to their son. Friends and family — I don't know anybody anymore. Make me as a queen now. Broken margin and handwritten scrawl carry the ache of identity dissolving.