By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker recalls what love did to time and life, valuing a woman's face before a closing fragment about being disfigured enough to write and others leaving.
The writer places admiration beside damage and departure. The poem does not identify the woman or establish a literal injury.
Typed rows: 'To make up for lost time / What love did / The way it stoped life', 'I never even considered / anything better than her face', ending 'Enough for me to write / and them to leave'.
The poem treats love as both a stop and a reason to write.