By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page imagines being lost in the ocean, then turns toward a hard lesson about holding onto meaning at the same time it wounds and tests you.
Even in fragmentary form, its movement is clear: sea, river, curse, and language all belong to a single struggle to keep something alive without being destroyed by it. The closing turn toward logic, life, and language gives the page the feel of a rough philosophical note pulled straight from ordeal.
Short coda: 'Lost in the ocean / Better a sea return princess.' The curse and how to leave and hold on at the same time; logic dreams its life, and the closing 'Language, I sought' makes the drowning into a search for speech.