By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker puts hurt, illness, death, and loss against demands to grip a pole and take a shovel, then predicts that the addressee will not do so.
The ending undercuts the imperatives with an experienced refusal or expectation. The inserted mess and unclear mark near rhyme should not support a polished account of the poem's logic.
'Sorid It Is' says 'Take the hurt / and all its rhyme', then 'Grip the pole / Take the shovel', and ends 'There is no question / That you will not'.
A hard instruction to endure; Sorid and experanced are kept as typed, and the interlinear mess and the handwritten rhyme correction are provisional.