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By Jack Joseph Smith
Alanzo Johnson - Lost decision to Mo. Ali
To hold the tongue to the epletic,
Or to watch the knife narrow past the marrow
of the bone.
You create images
And images create you
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
The page turns a boxing loss and bodily danger into a compact statement about how images are made and how they remake the self.
Its movement is sharp: fight, tongue, knife, marrow, then the sudden turn into ars poetica. The final handwritten lines make imagination feel inseparable from physical risk, as if creativity itself comes out of damage and exposure.
Claude
Three unrelated jottings cohere into an ars poetica: a boxer's 'Lost decision to Mo. Ali', the choice 'To hold the tongue to the epletic' or watch a knife pass 'past the marrow of the bone', then the closing reciprocity 'You create images / And images create you'. Bodily danger and authorship are made interchangeable.