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By Jack Joseph Smith
HE could wait when
he was few hundred
And then off the ice
he went in dying at our
the beginning of Light
I got alot of it
but I don't have Europe
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page is a short handwritten lyric about waiting, age or scale, ice, dying, light, and the strange admission of having `alot of it` but not Europe.
The corrected phrase `few hundred` sharpens the page into a miniature historical or cosmic reckoning. The poem moves from compressed image into anticlimax, making Europe feel both absurdly withheld and heavily symbolic.
A seven-line fragment about HE going 'off the ice / he went in dying at our / the beginning of Light' — the speaker owns 'alot of it' but not Europe, a Europe/Stauffenberg coda in miniature.