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This brief page weighs repetition against constant novelty and asks what either mode of work really knows if it never becomes fully personal and accountable.

It reads like a compact artist's question. Technique alone is not enough; the work has to apply back to the self.

A compact ars poetica built on a refrain. Two opposed work-habits are each dismissed with the same line: 'Do the same thing over and over again / What do they know', then 'Or do something different all the time / What do they know'. Neither repetition nor restless variety guarantees understanding. The real standard arrives in the last lines - 'About making everything you do / apply to you' - where 'apply' carries the handwritten P correction, so accountability to the self, not technique, becomes the measure of real work.