By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page, titled 'Start The Silence,' is an inventory of abandonment, asking someone to leave behind every domestic object until absence itself becomes the subject.
The repeated 'leave' gives the poem its force. Pools, tools, a basketball hoop, a swing, the grape vine, and money all become proof that material traces remain even after the person is gone. The preserved source oddities keep the page abrupt and unpolished.
Start The Sileneec reads the departure as a property list — flowers, plants, pool, steps, tools, the boys' basketball hoop, the swing, the grape vine — and lands on the real accounting at the end: Just money, and now your gonec. The preserved typos (Sileneec, gonec, Mo, Mot, haye) keep the page honest about how the poem was typed out in one unstable pass.