By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This second 'Place' makes change itself the correction, insisting that what one seeks can only be found after it comes apart.
The poem treats place as something discovered only after failure, separation, and coming apart. Its final movement from Sum to change suggests that solidity is less useful than the altered form that follows disintegration.
The speaker refuses placement -- 'I didn't place it / Instead,, I looked for it' -- and finds that the object 'came apart; / and actualy,, / that is when I went to find it'. The poem prizes flux over solidity: 'nothing / more solid than the Sum' is immediately answered by the isolated word 'change', so that things 'are not necessarly / good fortune' and the unfinished 'Try to' leaves the search deliberately open-ended.