Page 70

By Jack Joseph Smith

Slanted So to get worse each week,, ee Ever though not on purpose Wild and wicked is confusing And change is just better at it We should all be upset over displacement And though that is where it all began No mind will ever make their mind up But I have kicked the can

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

Slanted gathers worsening conditions, displacement, confusion, and indecision in a poem that sounds weary with history but still ends on the image of someone having kicked the can forward.

The page has a bitter public mood. It treats decline as both collective and strangely unresolved, with nobody fully willing to decide anything.

Claude

Slanted. Getting worse each week, even not on purpose. Wild and wicked is confusing; change is better at it. We should all be upset over displacement — though that is where it all began. I have kicked the can as rueful closer.