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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The narrator describes a pointed shack roof, rocks at rest and hunger, with parenthetical comments about ceilings, batter, hogs and blame.
The speaker claims the batter is fine and admits hunger. Later comments concern targets, light and natural night. The ambiguous vowel in guns and a possible cancellation across thankful for the leave those details open.
Page '200' describes 'A / shack under the curved stone' with a roof that 'meet at a streight / point', then a run of parentheses: '(I'm not A Mexican, bot my batter / is fine; And I'm hungry.)' and '(The world is thankful for the / lapse.)'.
The parenthetical voice comments wryly on the scene, ending 'it is / the sun and moon, not I that is to / blame.)'.