Page 53
By Jack Joseph Smith
Crash
I did not say a thing
Later I gave it a thou,ht
About saying something
The child did not get
What it was thinking
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
The poem frames silence and delayed thought through a child who cannot grasp what it was thinking.
The page turns an unsaid thing into a later act of reflection. Its misshapen thou,ht keeps the thinking visibly damaged or interrupted, which fits the child's failure to get what it was thinking.