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By Jack Joseph Smith

I was lying in my bunk Reading Theodore Roethke When the man who was intrusted to run the Block, Walked in and said he'd just seven years I don't know what the man had done, And I don't want to know But right now the violence in him was not letting tears take him down. He went into a T.V. station with a shotgun. REASON UNSURE A friend in station messing with wife B. owed money

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A handwritten note describes lying in a bunk reading Theodore Roethke when a man who ran the block came in after seven years; it then records that he went into a T.V. station with a shotgun and lists uncertain reasons.

The page mixes prison or institutional memory with literary reading and violent aftermath. The blunt heading "REASON UNSURE" keeps the explanation unresolved, preserving uncertainty rather than imposing motive.

Claude

A handwritten account links reading Theodore Roethke in a bunk with a man from the block, a T.V. station, a shotgun, and uncertain reasons.

The note has the structure of remembered incident and incomplete explanation. Its uncertainty is central: violence is named, but motive remains provisional and listed rather than settled.