By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes unavoidable caring, chasing darkness, assembling themselves by day, and a broken-up journey that can read as sad although it is called happy.
The poem explicitly distinguishes intended happiness from how a reader may hear it. Source correst is retained without editorial correction.
'Happy' says 'There has not been a choice / About caring', sets a rhythm of 'All through the night / I chase the dark I see / In the day I assemble / And make myself correst', and calls the journey something 'just to write about'.
The poem answers its own reader: 'Broken up as it is / Is not suposed to be sad / Although reading it that way, / actually it is happy'. Brokenness is offered as the form of the joy, not its opposite.