By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A speaker in his sixties says he understands alcoholism through imagined love or war but still does not understand hard drugs, including their use by the Hell's Angels whom he has liked.
The speaker distinguishes forms of intoxication through his own account of imagination and sympathy. His claim belongs to the poem and provides no diagnosis, medical advice or independent biography.
A typed page: 'Here I am in my sixties saying / that I understand Alcholism', 'but I still don't get hard drugs,', ending 'and that goes all the way / to the Hell's Angel's / who I've liked'.
The speaker separates drink from drugs; the voice is literary and its claims are not checked biography.