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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Native sons appeal to God's son amid arrows, stars, distance, gravity, Jesus going down another way, and a rolling ship between Heaven and burning.
The page moves between cosmic direction and unstable physical perspective. Its final distance from the Sun makes both closeness and separation hazardous, without stating a doctrine.
'Native Sons' opens as a plea, 'Gods son help us native sons', and turns into cosmic navigation: 'the distance between two points', 'the fight against gravity / increasing to where Jesus thought / about going the other way down', and a ship where 'you see the Earth fold'.
Disorientation is the point: 'You don't know if your in Heaven, / or burning up', and the close holds nearness and exile together, 'To close to the Sun we have come / To far away to stay its friend'.