By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page warns against getting too close to danger while recognizing that fearlessness on stage or in the ring is usually something performed and paid for second by second.
The poem is short but tense. With the spacing cleaned to match the evenly lineated scan, its clipped warnings read as one continuous instruction about fear, performance, and the body counting what it survived.
''''Watch yourself' -- don't claw yourself, don't forget the correct way to death. 'The loss of fear is on the stage or in the ring.' After guts, each second after it, 'You go.''''