Page 71
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page layers a whisperd-to-WOMEN and skull-scraping fragment under the heading-like word `APPALOOZA`.
`APPALOOZA` reads like a label, chant, or event marker set against the more intimate lines below it. The mixed orientations make the page feel less like a finished poem than a scrap from a working notebook, with the repeated whisper fragment as its stable poetic element.
A retitled version of the page 70 fragment, here headed 'APPALOOZA' over 'Wish I had WOMEN whisperd to, / Scraping your skull$ / with that your Love will KNEEL'. The horse-breed title (spelled 'APPALOOZA') reframes the whisper-and-kneel lines as something to do with taming or being broken, the animal name pulling against the erotic charge. This reading remains provisional because the scan layers handwriting in multiple orientations, is marked needs-followup, and surrounding numeric and rotated notes are still uncertain. Source spellings 'APPALOOZA' and 'whisperd to,' kept as written.