By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page asks what is to be done without power, placing removed killing beside bodily gestures, a thought, and a lengthening plan.
The fragment refuses an easy distinction between powerlessness and violent thought. It is not a practical instruction or confirmed plan.
'Without power' asks 'What is to be done' once 'Killing is removed', answers with reduced gestures, 'Lifting the eyebrow', 'Cutting clean at the sink / with a thought', and ends on 'Glimmering yes to kill / without power / The plan is only longer'.
The page keeps the violent impulse while stripping its means, so powerlessness delays rather than ends it. It reads as a meditation on thwarted anger, not as an instruction or a confirmed plan.