By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Under the handwritten title Tony, the speaker insists on having taken no time and stolen nothing while admitting the temptation to steal another man's wife, then turns toward absence, estrangement, and the mind as a small conscious particle.
The page balances denial and confession. Its source misspellings and clipped phrases make the voice feel immediate, as if the speaker is trying to prove innocence while exposing the desire beneath it.
An apology-disclaimer to the street. Didn't take a second, didn't rob you — though I thought about stealing your wife. Stun yourselves on my street. The close is tenderness: don't leave me, I only went away as a part of things, a particle with a brain.