Page 138

By Jack Joseph Smith

Resining down the spudder, the spim, against the spouting wicked inside stretch Turning the end wheels taut,. and setting the leaver in a nitch that will not groove Peripheral reading the view, for the circumferance extream of sag and bow And he stood on his scoot, and swung with signifance He was underneath Beneath the top Though the top Two of everything, I asked Gibbons to think of Security and danger, at the same time

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

Mechanical strain, swinging balance, and the figure beneath the top turn a work scene into a meditation on holding security and danger together.

The language behaves like a machine under load: wheels, lever, sag, bow, scoot, and swing all matter because the page is about tension being set and lived inside. Gibbons is asked to think in doubles, and the worker beneath the top becomes the person who must inhabit that doubleness physically. The result is both technical and philosophical.

Claude

Same as 137 expanded with he stood on his scoot, and swung with signifance. Gibbons is asked to think of Security and danger at the same time.