By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page moves from sky-shouting intensity to a floating leaf and then to the mountain top, balancing cosmic urgency against a wish to stay above the spin of things.
Its energy comes from contrast. The verified text restores the repeated `second shouts` movement, then turns toward a vantage point calm enough to let things spin around below.
The page opens in cosmic self-assertion: 'Every second sure as shit / Shouts across the sky / A second shouts / Yes am I,' time itself announcing the speaker's existence. It then shrinks to a single drifting image, 'Let little be the leaf / that floated across / the river / It is alright,' acceptance offered to the small and passing. The close counsels detachment - 'A place that you can't go / Sure it is best / To stay on top of the mountain / And let things spin around' - elevation traded for the serenity of not chasing what's out of reach.