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The speaker asks whether somebody else must be there for an insult, while tobAco has them crying like a cat.

The handwritten whilE joins the question to the tobacco image rather than naming white tobacco. The page leaves the relation between insult, a witness, and crying open.

A typed question, 'Is it true, / somebody else / Needs be there / in order / to be insulted', runs straight into a handwritten continuation: 'whilE tobAco / hAs got mE / cryiNg LikE / A cAt'.

With whilE the two halves join into one sentence: the speaker weighs whether insult needs a witness while alone and crying over tobacco, so the comic simile carries the loneliness the question implies.