By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page addresses Don directly, folding war, wandering, work, and family agreement into a reassurance that he belongs.
The typed text reads like a family declaration of solidarity, while the large handwritten Don makes the addressee physically dominate the lower page. The result is less an abstract poem than a direct act of inclusion.
Addressed directly to 'Don,' the page is a plain reassurance built from family values - 'war, wandering: / the world and hard work' - and witnessed by name: 'Rose Marie, Christian are in agreement.' The repeated 'Don' and the closing 'you are not alone' make it less poem than spoken pledge of belonging.