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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A typed poem apologizes for weakness, refuses growth, describes evil without ears or tongues, and ends with a handwritten note: "Try to create the personality / of the mother through / male behavior. / obviously unworkable."
The page combines moral negation with a later compositional or psychological instruction. The inserted "SWEET / TO ME" phrases interrupt the typed logic, while the final note reframes the page as a failed experiment in persona or gendered voice.
A typed poem moves through apology, difficulty, evil, saints, flame, and ugliness, followed by a handwritten assessment that the mother-through-male-behavior idea is unworkable.
The page reads like draft material under active revision. Its bleak typed assertions are complicated by handwritten insertions and a candid bottom note about the failure of a persona strategy.