By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
"Sight / Sound" turns a pact with blind men into a bank-scene test of authenticity, where the speaker reads intent and judges the supposed robbers by whether they pick up his signals.
The handwritten Sound in the title makes the poem's contrast explicit: sight is distrusted while signals, names, and recognition carry authority. The speaker's odd confidence depends on a private code with the blind men, and the men in the bank fail because they cannot hear or understand it. The handwritten insertion of the place clarifies the robbery scene without making it less unstable.
Sight: a pact with the blind men because they are all alike, twirling finger in a bank, dropping names the robbers did not pick up, therefore not authentic.