By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page speaks in rough hole-and-line imagery, mixing childhood, stopping, and a refusal to keep shooting with a strange grin remembered at the edge.
Something deep and trapped opens into a statement about stopping and no longer shooting, then shifts toward a meeting-place at the far side of the hole. The odd 'PE, DEERIES' phrase keeps the page raw and private, while the final remembered grin gives the fragment a dark, half-surviving tenderness.
A handwritten note to 'Jon' that drops 'deep down into the RACOON' and 'the hole your in', then surfaces a shared childhood vow: 'when children, AND said, I Ain't shoot'en Any More.' The hunting hole becomes the terrain of that refusal, and the fragment ends in rough tenderness -- 'SEE you there, REMEMBER that GRIN, top of the LINE.' This reading stays provisional because the page is a partly legible handwritten draft, including the unresolved 'PE, DEERIES in there' phrase the reviewer retained without confident sense.