By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page revisits love, self-presentation, and power from a more reflective angle, letting memory and control sit side by side.
The hat, untouched streams, washing, and the return to love versus control make the page feel like a variation on the book's larger concerns. The corrected `Lost` intensifies the self-correction: the speaker remembers desire but refuses to romanticize control.
Memory, body, and power circle one bereaved center. The speaker 'was wearing a hat / I willl never forget it', then washes 'my armpits / and my breats' in 'untouched streams' where she wishes for him. She corrects her own consolation - 'There is something better / but then I know there is not' - and refuses his idealization: 'He always thought I was filled with love / He was wrong'. The page turns on lost control, 'I am Lost with the control I have lost', and a power 'like the winnie of a stead', closing on her recurring scale of value: 'The military is very handsome too / The governers are ugly'. This reading leans cautiously on the mixed-quality scan-backed handwritten correction.