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By Jack Joseph Smith

Five as the sine that made the stars sink Quick as the grasshopper that makes an ignorant think Far as a loss of sight Wonder is always better Thought is the universe your hands, your work, no matter, must be motive Got pleasure.

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This handwritten page turns quick perception and wonder against the limits of thought, grounding the cosmic language back in hands, work, motive, and pleasure.

The page is compact but pointed. Stars, grasshopper movement, loss of sight, and wonder all set up a contrast between immediacy and explanation, then the ending brings that argument down into labor and desire, as if the mind's universe still has to answer to the body and its making.