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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page centers on loss, Arizona, Utah, street misery, gangs, Catholic drama, and the ethics of doing unto others.
The reviewed spacing clarifies the page as a set of grouped claims rather than a blur of lines. Its solemnity comes from turning violence and chance into a moral geography where the `glory of our loss` is both interior and public.
Section 'III' urges staying 'internal with the glory of our loss,' spanning 'The dust of Arizona and the salt of Utah' where 'the street knows nothing of misery' and 'Gangs split into singular sorrow.' Blood runs 'high enough to spit colors,' chance produces 'significent mistakes,' and the speaker is 'Dramatically Catholic at the sea of Gallic,' before the poem hardens into a violent biblical close - 'Do unto others; make a shot, make a dart / The best of troubble, the last of Lot' - keeping the source spellings 'significent' and 'troubble.'