Page 18
By Jack Joseph Smith
Write these
Poem til
the day I
die, Nothing
else to do
of course then
is....
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
A compact ars poetica in which the speaker reduces life to one lasting obligation: keep writing poems until death interrupts the task.
The page is bare and direct, but that is its point. Poetry is not presented as inspiration or prestige here, only as the one thing left to keep doing.
Claude
'Write these / Poem til / the day I / die' — the whole page in seven lines, closing on a trailing ellipsis that keeps the sentence unfinished on purpose. Not a vow so much as a description of what's already happening.