By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This `Last Way` page sets death as a dream, memory as a snake, and care as something offered without explanation while the speaker hovers between return and disappearance.
The corrected line `I have waited for you` makes the page less garbled and more patient: the speaker has endured, still cares, and still refuses to explain the final threshold.
'The Last Way' is a patient, unflinching address to death and memory. The speaker has 'thought about it / But not a whole lot' - 'Death as a dream,' 'Time to go.' Memory is figured 'as a snake' that 'have not bit me yet,' and he insists 'I am not overcome.' The corrected line 'I have waited for you / Never listened to you' makes his stance one of endurance: 'I care / And I explain nothing,' poised 'At this second / Where I do / or don't / come back.'