Page 61

By Jack Joseph Smith

The Window Through whick: one looks T see nothing The one next to me Nothing either is what was seen Mostly downtown But other places Outside valleys and such . You see a twist in the mind If they were the same age, in the same place thirty five years ago, no matter what, their bellies and their eyes would be better

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

"The Window" looks through adjacent panes and sees almost nothing except the mental twist by which time and place have worn down the bodies and faces that might once have been better.

The emptiness in the windows is less visual than social, a record of attrition rather than blankness. Downtown, valleys, and other places all flatten into the same judgment once the poem imagines those lives thirty-five years earlier. Bellies and eyes become the evidence of damage, making the mind's twist inseparable from material decline.

Claude

The Window: nothing seen out of it, mostly downtown, but the thirty-five-years-ago wager sets the twist, their bellies and eyes would be better.