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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This 'A Change Of Plans' page stages Jesus, Mohamad, Budda, Hindu practice, wandering, war, and symbolic endurance as competing religious presences inside one unsettled meditation.
The corrected transcript makes the page less like broken OCR and more like a deliberately crowded spiritual roll call. Its force comes from the speaker asking about killing, then trying to stand as a symbol among traditions that do not resolve into one system.
This 'A Change Of Plans' page is a crowded religious roll call. It opens by yoking faith to violence -- 'Jesus did walk / And how many have you killed' -- then lifts an empty glass, 'Mine is none for I wom,' and summons traditions in turn: 'Mohamad at the end / Budda, come find me.' The speaker positions himself as inclusive symbol, 'I stay to be all things,' before sketching each path -- Mohamad 'Springs to war,' 'Hindu sleeps and starves / on purpose' -- and closing on the wry 'Jesus is not modern: / He has been heard of.' Source spellings ('Mohamad,' 'Budda,,,' 'wom') are kept.