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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A fragment that tries to move 'from Sinatra' and 'from SEWER' toward some unnamed destination while admitting that what passes through is exquisite, shamefull, expressive, and silent at once.
The page matters less as a complete statement than as a tonal hinge. Glamour and filth are placed on the same track, and the closing adjectives suggest a world where beauty and disgrace are inseparable.
A handwritten fragment that sets up a route and then drops it: 'From Sinatra / From SEWER / to the' - the destination after 'to the' never arrives. The shouted 'SEWER' yoked to 'Sinatra' puts glamour and filth on one line. In place of an endpoint come the adjectives describing what 'Things PASS' as: 'Exquisite, / and shamefull, / expressive, and / silent'. The retained 'shamefull' and the broken-off syntax let the qualities themselves stand as the only arrival, a world that is refined and disgraceful in the same breath.