By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A report of spitting at a military airport opens into a meditation on professional wordplay, false righteousness, money, evil, and hell.
The page moves from disgust to moral argument without softening. The handwritten 'Professional' makes the language passage more pointed: words, symbols, and good intentions are never innocent once power and violence enter the frame.
An untitled page opens on a reported scandal - 'I heard she spit on him, / how can that be possible / at a military airport' - then widens into moral argument. Against the handwritten 'Professional' and 'Playing with words', the speaker sets 'crossing the sword / is not the sign of the cross', and grants that 'all asross the earth / good men get up / in the morning / to do what they think is right'. The grim conclusion - 'One makes evil out of the other / It is a nightmare, no one will wake / up from the hell' - is deflated by the mercenary last line, 'Ok,, I will talk to you about the money.'