By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page moves from uncertainty toward a modest ethical question: when we see someone lost or simply unchanged by life, is recognition itself enough?
It reads like a poem about judgment softening into mercy. With the OCR noise removed, the contrast between being lost and being as one has always been becomes the page's central pressure.
A poem about double vision and its sufficiency. Certainty keeps dissolving - 'First it is sure, / then it is unconclusive', 'Two ways at the same time' - and the speaker insists 'It is not a mixture', the contradictory readings stubbornly distinct. The pivot is a difference in how seeing falls: 'When a glance sees / someone who is lost' versus the 'streightforward' look at 'someone who is as / they have always been'. The closing question, 'Something says in me / Isn't that enough', tips judgment toward acceptance - to see a person clearly, lost or unchanged, may be all that is owed. Source spellings 'unconclusive', 'there way', 'streightforward' are kept verbatim.