By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Lauren revises the catalogue of need until wildness, lost death, thought, and prayer replace ordinary help, preparing for a highest condition beyond assistance.
The repeated opening lines make the poem feel like a second attempt to sort necessity correctly. "Universe" appears almost like an interruption or a sudden expansion, widening the domestic list into something cosmic. Discovering that wildness has no difference in it does not bring peace; the handwritten lost death and the turn toward thought and prayer make the cost of seeing further more severe.
Longer 'Lauren': extends the catalogue with those who discover 'there is no differance in wildness' and so suffer thought and sometime prayer, heading toward the highest.