By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
Not There: begins with a shotgun swiveling and moves through failed flight, shot and shell, too much rhyme, apology for sorrow, escape, acknowledgement, law, a shut door, and the handwritten 'Ticket tape in / The Morning'.
The page reads like aftermath compressed into a set of hard pivots. The handwritten additions widen the ending from violence into public record and morning reckoning.
'Not There:' compresses violent aftermath into hard pivots. A 'shotgun swivel' arrives 'in a swish'; the speaker 'Thought I only to fly' but 'Couldn't leave the ending,' bound to 'Shot and shell' and 'To much rhyme in the air.' He insists 'Nothing deliberate / Just a way in and a way out,' then offers 'Silence and sorry for sorrow' and 'Some excape strong / as steel on the shoulders.' The handwritten close - seeing 'the law,' shutting 'the door,' and 'Ticket tape in / The Morning' - widens the violence into public record and a morning reckoning.