By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page sketches a woman's transformation into a monumental but diminished figure, where crossing the line leads not to freedom but to estrangement.
The emotional trajectory is clear. The draft treats power as something that enlarges and empties at once, leaving the woman turned into symbol and distance rather than recovered intimacy. The restored `dined on` replacement sharpens the sense that celebrity consumes as well as magnifies.
'THE STAR' draws a woman friend who 'crossed / the line, but never came / back', then 'Turned into A colossus' and 'Lost definition, / Not what she dined on, / those Pyramid's / that refuse to sink' - fame as monumental erasure. During her act, 'Every-one had A letter for her,' and the closing turn - 'The problem was, that power / changes its dominion / over -' - frames celebrity as something that enlarges and empties at once.