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By Jack Joseph Smith
Most Like you can
tell if a deer has
been killed in the
night,
cause their eyes
are dialated when
they are dead
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A short fragment identifies the dead deer by the dialated eyes left visible after night killing.
The page turns a single rural observation into evidence. Its bluntness is the point: death is not narrated as drama, but recognized through the body's altered sign.
A few handwritten lines describe how a deer's night death can be read from its dialated eyes.
The fragment is almost forensic, but it remains lyrical because the knowledge is local and bodily. The speaker does not explain the killing; he records the sign by which it can be known.