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By Jack Joseph Smith

[I-10-05 Se war ské ax . At least during two thousand one I was not eating eloquently alone in space But that does not mean that I was not sadly sophisticated and just about gone from vd When I was bove freedom ANG was first before talk : “i Now over the edge oe. ’ . rr is just the onnfapte Strange how you call on the phone to places you would have shone up To start again/ REEEeein Ihe matter what

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

This page repeats the "Sunrise" material as a battered reprise, preserving the same late-life desire to begin again despite depletion and distance.

Because the language returns in altered form, the page reads like memory trying to restate itself and not quite landing in the same place twice. That repetition actually sharpens the poem’s concern with belatedness: by the time the speaker reaches for renewal, experience has already bent the words. The insistence on "no matter what" keeps the piece from collapsing into resignation.

Claude

Recast of Sunrise: same content, more marginalia. Idiosyncratic spelling onnfapte is kept intact.