By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page moves from junk and beginnings into Zen-like watching, crossing, struggle, and the claim that others' endings have made more rather than less.
The spacing cleanup makes the argument read as a steady sequence rather than isolated fragments. Its discipline lies in watching the beginning and ending without giving up the fight.
An untitled meditation, headed by its first line 'I have been junk / Before junk,' that turns recovery into a discipline of attention. 'The reminder / is well taken': 'When you see / the beginning / stop at the end,' and going back is figured as Zen - 'Watch what ever / whick way.' The poem closes on endurance and accumulation: 'Fight for your life / Who can care a caress / Till the ending others / have made more / not less.'