By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page turns an absurd domestic act into a poem about interpretation itself, insisting that readers can always build a story out of the gaps.
The voice is playful and self-aware here. Something is literally taken from the pot and eaten, then immediately recast as a poem because readers know how to search between lines and imagine what happened. The closing correction about not getting higher keeps the page suspended between confession and joke.
A small brag about eating it first, turning the drug ritual into a poetry ritual. The lecture-without-getting-high closing is self-aware and slightly superior, which is the point: the speaker has stepped outside the circle and is narrating it.