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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page turns mess and pain into a dispute over blame, insisting that one may be marked by someone else's pain without being answerable to them.
Its language is fractured but the emotional line is sharp. Something rises alone, gets mangeled in a river of mess, and is identified with the other person's pain. The closing refusal matters most: relation does not automatically grant moral authority, so I am to be charged as of you, but I am not to be charged by you.
A spaced, fractured lyric that turns suffering into a question of jurisdiction. Something goes 'Up... and all alone,' destined to be 'mangeled / in a river of mess,' and the speaker concedes 'this is your pain.' The crux is the paired, italic-leaning distinction at the end: 'I am to be charged as / of you,. / but I am not to be charged, / by you!' Relation can mark or implicate the speaker without granting the other any authority to judge or accuse. Source spelling 'mangeled' and the source punctuation 'of you,.' are preserved.