By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The poem builds a violent cosmology where black holes, suns, flesh, spirit, and devilish fact churn together in an endless cycle.
The language moves through tunnels, atoms, sharks, fire, and deep blackness as if creation and destruction are the same event viewed from different angles. Mind alone spins war as power gives conflict a central role in the universe imagined here. The syntax is fragmentary and incantatory, but the pressure of the lines keeps returning to a struggle between spirit and brute control.
Cosmology scribbled in quick strokes: black hole, next universe, silver tunnel, devil taking control at the first deep black.
The page is written as if the speaker is taking rapid dictation from a vision rather than composing stanzas. That makes the shifts between astrophysics and theology feel like a single continuous substance instead of a borrowed metaphor. The closing image — 'Spirit due still cancels with Lot' — ends the cosmology with a specific biblical exchange, which is the page's way of saying the new physics doesn't retire the old accounting.