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By Jack Joseph Smith

It's No this Bird you iMAGINE Ego Cause it stays still A thought way out there to think All the way to the end thinking, nothing at all Representation included; what a perfect collection It isn't like Ball & Kerr jars, caming fruit Cause the last of the ego,. dosen't care, if it gets it right or not Not to say don't take your poetry well Kind as a wolf's distant howl Terrible as is close to a snarl One eye over all Each moment,, every note No LEVEL No form No finding No finish

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This page frames the imagined bird as something stilled, then turns to a thought that reaches the end by releasing correctness, poetic control, and fixed form.

The handwritten title and the later No LEVEL / No form / No finding / No finish note make the page feel like a poetics of refusal. Its jars and fruit image rejects preservation or neat representation, while the wolf howl and snarl keep poetry between distance and threat. The ego is present, but its last movement is not mastery; it no longer cares whether it gets the answer right.

Claude

Listen to the Bird: a thought way out there, representation included, what a perfect collection. Not like Ball and Kerr jars canning fruit. Kind as a wolf's distant howl, terrible as close to a snarl.