By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page stages time and creation as a cosmic before-and-after, then revises the abstraction with handwritten pressure about life, thought, matter, and creation.
The scan-backed reading shows a page under active revision: crossed-out typed phrases are replaced or complicated by handwritten insertions like 'THE NEW,' 'Long,' and 'Not just Life through Thought.' The result is less a finished lyric than a visible argument between cosmic structure and lived struggle.
'Before the Fall': maybe before the future happens it sees what you have become; inside a galaxy of dust; 'THE NEW STAR.' Beginning and end are inside each other — 'my just life through thoughts but the struggle of matters of what is creation.'