By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The Try sets effort against time through wingless flight, war, delayed love, memory, loss, and gain before arriving at a vision of glass, the inside of the sun, and the devil's appearance.
The page treats seeing as a threshold. The marginal words are preserved as notes rather than forced into the poem, so the interpretation follows the verified typed text while still recording the handwritten pressure around knowing and chase.
A continuation of 'The Try' that restates its terms -- 'The signature against time / Flight without wings / War as walking out the door / Love as wait till later' -- and pairs loss with gain: 'Loss/simple as what is / remembered / Gain the same thing.' The page builds to a vision and a riddle: someone 'saw a piece of glass / when they saw the / inside of the sun,' and 'The devil shows / If you have never / seen it / Then you don't have anything / to worry about.' Marginal handwriting ('know,' 'CHASE CHASE') is unresolved and left out of the body.