By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The speaker rejects nostalgia for intellectual goodness, turns to no thought and being put away, then imagines someone going beyond and speaking up.
The last thought treats mentioning or raising a voice as worse, complicating any straightforward plea for expression. The page does not explain the situation of confinement.
Under the handwritten heading 'CLosE', the speaker refuses nostalgia for a time 'when intellectuaL / was good for life', asks the reader to 'Think now about no thought', and turns to what 'the average person' knows about 'being put away'.
The close says it 'would seem just a little bit cleaner / If one person would have gone beyond / And mentioned it, / or worse, / raised their voice / about it'; calling speech worse is ironic, measuring the silence around confinement. The page does not explain whose confinement is meant.