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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page reads as a rough credo of honesty, cost, and endurance, ending in a handwritten fragment that turns the advice into a larger claim of lived experience.
The typewritten body is sermon-like: tell the truth, never lie, and accept the consequences. The handwritten continuation expands that sermon into lived experience, while the side revisions remain preserved as annotations rather than forced into the poem body.
'Nothing Done' reads as a credo addressed to 'Dimetric': 'Go tell the truth / Never lie,' even when honesty 'causes / more problems / than it is worth,' promising the miracle of walking 'across the lake' as 'easy as you please,' and closing with the boast 'I have been on three mountains.'