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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
This Eninco page stays in a register of damage, repetition, fatigue, smiling revision, and restless motion, where revolution and love sound like variations of the same instability.
The surviving lines feel less narrative than atmospheric. The speaker is damanged, out of touch, pushed through revolutions, changing endings, and shifting tempos, yet still addressing Eninco directly. What gives the page its force is the swing between longing and collapse: almost nothing remains, but the address continues anyway.
This page addresses Eninco directly in a mood of damage and fatigue. The speaker is 'lost and damanged to go,' feeling 'Out of touch almost as a child,' while endings keep changing, 'Smiling A different ending each time / Another revolution.' Time and rhythm blur together in 'So tempo y tempo Eninco / Porque....' and exhaustion surfaces as 'glorious for fATIGUE.' Love is drained rather than fulfilling: 'Being im love nothing remains / The rifle is a lady less.' The page ends with Eninco 'Reeling back' and the speaker's plea, 'pLEASE catch yourself / From the birth of the horse,' so tenderness and instability arrive together.