By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A bad dream demands feline attention, while a seeing window that reflects nothing keeps watching, and country sense mingles with hog-filled city street survival.
The command to listen gives the bad dream practical weight, like advice for getting through a dangerous hour rather than an invitation to interpret symbols. The cat in the corner suggests watchfulness without panic, a domestic version of feral patience. That strange window sees without reflecting, so the world becomes something observed by surfaces as much as by people.
Shorter third version, with the hogs helping the city street and the wilderness line left implicit; trails off with OCR fragments but keeps the refrain: 'I don't care if they hear me.'