By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This second "Worry" makes the earlier darkness plainer, linking suicidal thought to memory, wind, and the seduction of looking properly at sand, soil, mountains, and sea.
The poem sounds almost instructional in places, as if it is trying to map despair rather than simply confess it. The remembered fun with the mother gives the piece a lost center of warmth that the speaker cannot fully return to. Its final claim that the sea's attraction is "nothing but the comfort of death" turns landscape into a lure rather than a refuge.
A second 'Worry' restates the thesis cleanly - 'Sucide is a place / To begin makes no sence' - and turns almost instructional: 'I watch the wind / And I know how it grows.' The remembered 'dert' done 'with my mother' stays the lost warm center ('I remember it was fun'), the 'glimmer there.' It closes by recasting landscape as lure: 'The greatest attraction of the sea / is nothing but the comfort of death.'