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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This 'The Try' page sets signature, flight, aircraft, war, delayed love, shining parts, a movie Moon, picking up, doing now, loss, and a possible chase against time.
The cleaned typed body emphasizes motion and decision. The marginal COMBAT/BRAIN-like handwriting points toward the same pressure, but it has been kept as a documented annotation because its exact role is editorially unresolved.
'The Try' is a compressed meditation on speed, war, and deferral. It opens with 'The signature against time' and 'The flight, / wayward from wings,' naming 'The necessity of aircraft' as 'a new thought.' War is instantaneous and casual -- 'walking out the door, / never tangeled, / just split second with a step' -- while 'Love' is reduced to 'a wait till later.' The shining parts cohere into 'a movie Moon,' and the close stacks bare verbs and nouns -- 'Picking it up / Doing it now / Loss / Possibly a good chase.' Marginal handwriting on the page ('COMBAT,' 'BRAIN') is unresolved and left out of the body.