By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page moves from a strange image of Jesus and wine into humility about gardening, memorizing Robert Frost at an old flap kitchen table, and weighing unconsciousness as a risk worth taking.
The Frost passage clarifies the craft question. The poem balances disciplined cultivation against surrender to a deeper and possibly dangerous state.
A fragment of self-account that sets craft against surrender. The speaker is 'completly' humble about his 'gardening skills' yet claims he 'memorized Robert Frost, all of him, at an old flap kitchen table' - discipline learned at a poor man's table. The turn comes in weighing oblivion: he 'didn't want to be' unconscious, 'but then again, maybe it was worth the risk.'