By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Adolescent defiance, anti-clerical insult, adultery, Pittsburgh neighborhoods, and named social fragments cluster into a page of confrontational notes.
The page reads like a memory board rather than a finished poem: the typed threat against the priest is followed by block titles, place movement from Shadyside to Mount Oliver, and social names tied to Dormont, basketball, Howard, and Mt. Lebanon. Its energy is associative and accusatory, turning local geography into a map of scandal and resentment.
A violent fragment about being fourteen and tough enough to go up on the altar and kick the priests ass, followed by the block-lettered `THE ASS OF THE PRIEST`, `EVELYN, THE BABY`, and adultery from Shadyside to Mount Oliver.