By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page turns a grandfather's shotgun into a body remembered through physical detail, so that the weapon becomes a strange portrait of the man.
The description is intimate and unsettling at the same time. The gun is not treated mainly as an object of threat here; it becomes a way of keeping the grandfather present through shape, posture, and inherited feeling.
A loaded shotgun becomes a portrait of the dead grandfather. She 'WANTED to get A / tiKE CASE AND put it / up', but instead 'LEFT it on the / top third rung of THE / BEDROOM colosit, LOADED'. Taking it down, 'it's AS good Looking AS HE / WAS; it HAS A tight belly, / Long thin Legs, AND A high / forehead', and the closing identification turns wood into ancestor: 'it is wooden of / COURSE, which would BE Also / the SAME AS my GRANDPA'. The erratic capitalization and spellings 'tiKE CASE', 'colosit' are preserved as written.