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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A woman is described through unstable motion, damage, performance, and correction: hovering, spiraling, descending, using a lesser object, and still becoming the star of anyone's chosen scene.
The page turns bodily imbalance into a method of survival. Its odd spellings and typed corrections keep the poem physically exposed, especially around the stair, the lesser object, and the corrected movement from down to around. The final catwalk image makes the speaker's recognition of her feel earned through shared risk rather than pity.
She is not blaming, spinning off a mountain, can't talk anymore, hovers as a gypsy, cursing but using the lesser object. Pale face with a freckle on her forehead, feet need some work.