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SHE WAS NICE reduces memory to three blunt handwritten lines about a woman, a sighting, and a strangely fractured final image.

Its force comes from how little it says. The first two lines are almost childlike in their directness, then the last line breaks the scene into something harder to place, as if desire and perception were both slipping out of focus.

Three blunt handwritten lines: the verdict 'SHE WAS NICE', the act 'I SAW HER', and the broken closing 'I the gLASS'. The first two have a plainspoken, almost childlike directness, while the fractured last line - whether a window, mirror, or drinking glass - leaves seeing snagged on a surface. This reading remains provisional because the page transcript is partial and OCR-uncertain, and the final handwritten line is unresolved.