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This handwritten introductory page feels like a framing gesture, naming masculine identity and authorship before the main poem begins.

Because it reads more like a note or title leaf than a lyric proper, its importance is structural. It positions the next page as something introduced, mediated, and already in conversation with other names and voices.

A handwritten title leaf rather than a poem: 'CAIN AS JOST / A MAN' headlines the page, with 'Lenore Cohan' set apart and an 'Introductory / Poem / by / Joe Richie' credited beneath. The work here is framing and attribution - invoking Cain as the archetype of 'A MAN' and handing the reader off to another voice before the sequence proper begins. This reading stays cautious because the leaf is handwritten and gives names without lyric context.