Page 58

By Jack Joseph Smith

SURF WAVE BREAKS WHEN WAVE BREAKS TWICE THE HEIGHT at THE SCALE between the sea surface and the ocean floor Now is the time for all Thr wing off to water, 't had a swmimming. Nicely-it was meet by the mouth of the albertroash We wore no gloves in the south Seas It was strangely intellectual in a place that means body The whole trip at the night helm the jib To think about death on a cruse Has nothing to do with floating with porkchops on the ocean He had a magnificent grin The devil who had wondered into the perfected way As he fourteen sang his way into National Geografic I held back alot on the deck And had to bare a Captain on the sea Who loved Ann Rand OCT. 1968 Robin LEE Graham Kahuna - Hawaiian Ancient priests Yangana - North Shore

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The page combines sea-floor imagery, cruise reflection, literary drift, and later handwritten travel notes into a layered notebook-like composition.

What is interesting here is the coexistence of registers: a drafted poem about ocean depth and death at sea, then the marginal presence of `OCT. 1968`, Robin Lee Graham, and Hawaiian references. The corrected `porkchops` line keeps the sea reflection blunt and material. The page does not settle into a single finished artifact; it preserves a mind thinking by overlay, where voyage, reading, and revision keep interrupting each other.

Claude

A layered notebook page opening on a near-scientific aside, 'SURF WAVE BREAKS WHEN / WAVE BREAKS TWICE THE HEIGHT / at THE SCALE / between the sea surface / and the ocean floor', before sliding into a ship-life stanza. The lyric is gloveless in the south Seas, finds the sea 'strangely intellectual in a place that means body', and turns blunt: 'To think about death on a cruse / Has nothing to do with floating with porkchops on the ocean'. A grinning devil and a 'fourteen' sailor 'sang his way into National Geografic', while the speaker bears 'a Captain on the sea / Who loved Ann Rand'. Handwritten marginalia name 'OCT. 1968', 'Robin LEE Graham', and Hawaiian terms 'Kahuna' and 'Yangana - North Shore'. This reading remains provisional because the page is OCR-uncertain and marked needs-followup, with the lower handwritten place/name notes still unresolved.