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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page moves from the other side's ice caps and four suns into truth, childhood hell, killing, and the early sight of death that does not make any differance.
The corrected transcript sharpens the sequence: vast cosmic distance gives way to a child's moral terror. The source misspellings and odd punctuation keep the page's pressure raw rather than polished.
The page swings from cosmic scale to a child's terror. 'The other side' has 'ice caps / and four suns,' and distance is no escape -- 'You can stand away a thousand miles / and still have know something' -- while truth is inescapable: 'Try and take a second away from / the truth and it will stilll / show up.' The turn is the wound: 'I saw hell as a child,' to 'think about the kill / when you are ten and all is perfect.' The early sight of death 'didn't / make any differance.' Source spellings ('stilll,' 'differance,' 'have know') are kept.