By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The narrator describes a man lighting a room and cedar fire, asserting that he is alive, then handling a pistol and kneading blood into the floor.
The writer places the declaration of being alive between the firelit scene and the man's handling of blood and a pistol. The man asks what more he could want, then returns to actions that mix domestic preparation with violence.
Under the heading 'Do', the handwritten scene shows a man who 'lit the Light', feeds a stove, and says '(I AM feaverishly Alive, / And what more could A man / Ask!)'.
Domestic actions, 'slapped his pistol / sides', and 'laid his base for / spice over the stove' mix tenderness and threat. A word after the heading is not legible and is left out.