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By Jack Joseph Smith

UP AT The Top of painting down OR AT The bottom being up of color, up — Choquel TO - otherwise being wearing no underwear up rough down In between been agony, our hair still lookin' at the middle To know it an Think of Michael Angelo as only up a down

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The page is a vertical, handwritten meditation on up, down, color, exposure, and how painting can become bodily and spatial at once.

Its brokenness helps the poem. Rather than describing a stable scene, it keeps flipping orientation, making perception itself feel as precarious as dress, shame, and balance.

Claude

A directional poem played entirely on 'up' and 'down' — Choquel, Michelangelo, no underwear, agony in the middle — collapsing high and low art into the same physical gesture.