By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker asks to put a brain around the addressee, then turns to threats, distance from women and a man offending the speaker's mind.
The writer treats mental offense as a tumor moving toward an end. The page is an address in a draft, not evidence of a specific threat being carried out.
Typed rows with handwritten changes: 'Let me put my / brain around you / or I will discuss / killing you', 'for women are different / and distant', and 'But if a man / offENd my mind / Then it is a tumor / on the way toward / that end'.
The voice treats offense as illness, in threatening rhetoric that belongs to the poem; inked-out words are omitted.