By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Near the future interstate, a handwritten sink of sea, chance, second thoughts, and road fire leave ashes behind, making departure feel less like freedom than damage one must outlive.
The repeated questions about thinking once or twice make chance feel less accidental than morally uneasy. The handwritten line pulls sea imagery into the road poem, as if travel is also a sinking. Malfeasance is not only wrongdoing but a forward motion that burns through everything and still leaves a person standing in the residue. Leaving it all lands harder here because escape carries ash with it.
'Flight' four — revision of 367 with same opening and 'Malfeasance on the road, never looking at mistakes; that burn everything up, dosen't mean, you are not left in the ashes.' The ashes are the honest residue.