By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page titled 'Unless' links danger in change, time, a mother who trusted no one, an altered sky, stuck wings, a scarf crossing another's shoulder, sweetness, and the bitter friend.
The scan-verified oddities make the page feel physically typed rather than smoothed out. Its emotional hinge is still the closing reversal, where bitterness becomes the more trustworthy companion.
'Unless' opens in halting, repeated fragments -- 'Unless / Unless / The stream / The danger in change' -- and reverses the prior page's claim: 'I am not a participant.' It contrasts two kinds of faith: 'I trusted time / While my mother / trusted no one.' Then 'Something happened / to the sky' and the speaker cannot get his 'wings ... off the cair,' a scarf crossing 'ajother's soulder.' The closing reversal carries the weight: 'The sweet shows its face / But it is the bitter / that is your friend.' Source oddities ('cair,' 'ajother's,' 'soulder') are kept.