Page 29

By Jack Joseph Smith

HE SAID HE WAS, My friend, must spinn it to cleanth Drunk in wind Slight, therefore of wit The love of Nenis Nin WE KNEW, AFTER TIME, Did we ever take apart our troubles Silence has not to do with the passing of silver When we lose Life gaining the Long parts of the bridge To kill is good as gold Watch the ring WATCH A worse story told Clean is not necesxarly good unhinged wild without chime Great song without VOID Music withou ear NEVER clearly done, while gouze

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

This page is a damaged but resonant lyric about friendship, drunkenness, wit, Nenis Nin, the passing of silver, bridges, gold, and music pressed toward VOID.

The page survives through its oppositions: silver and gold, clean and wild, music and ear, Great song and VOID. The restored `the passing of` insertion clarifies one of its middle pivots, but the handwritten layer still resists final reading.

Claude

A page of single-line stanzas, half-elegy and half-ars-poetica, opening 'HE SAID HE WAS, / My friend, must spinn it to cleanth' and invoking 'The love of Nenis Nin WE KNEW, AFTER TIME.' Its aphorisms set art against purity - 'To kill is good as gold,' 'Clean is not necesxarly good,' 'Great song without VOID,' 'Music withou ear' - and it breaks off on 'NEVER clearly done, / while gouze,' refusing a finished close. This reading remains provisional because the page is mixed-band and flagged needs-followup, with names and final words like 'Nenis Nin' and 'gouze' uncertain in the transcript.