By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The Eninco page moves from wounded love into a harder argument about morality, loneliness, and whatever cannot be made by man.
The first half still feels like a love lyric, but it keeps unsettling its own tenderness. By the end, money, morality, loneliness, Sierra Madre, and the claim about what man cannot make all pull the page toward something broader than romance. Even in damaged form, it reads like a struggle to separate what is manufactured from what remains elemental.
'Eninco' opens the Mexico love-cycle with a beloved hailed as 'Todo el mondo Eninco,' a 'love is sweet / But not of a swallow,' 'My languished love / Large on a wing / Without return.' The plea 'Leave your nest not Eninco' gives way to a colder ledger: 'I know the distance between money and morality / Is your lonely worth,' and the handwritten coda hardens it - 'Eninco it is all a cache / And THAT is not / made by MAN / NATURE / The distance between two points.' The poem turns love into a way of separating the manufactured from the elemental. This reading is provisional: the band is 'mixed' and the lower handwriting is only partly legible.