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By Jack Joseph Smith
U think
Insult, casting my hand aside
There I told you
to get your hand off her shoulder
Denver Chinese Mexican
On the Ohio River
The hatered strong enough
To be transformed to me
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A speaker objects to a hand on her shoulder and describes hatered being transferred to them amid a list of places or identities.
The names in the fourth row do not establish the identities or locations of particular people.
'U think' opens mid-confrontation, 'Insult, casting my hand aside / There I told you / to get your hand off her shoulder', then sets down 'Denver Chinese Mexican / On the Ohio River'.
The page ends on a transfer of feeling, 'The hatered strong enough / To be transformed to me', with the speaker absorbing the hostility of the encounter. The bare row of place and ethnic names locates the scene without identifying any person.