By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page stages public movement among tough men, restaurants, caves, and rifles, turning ordinary spaces into places of apprehension and threat.
The restraunt line is especially sharp because it frames social entry as an event charged by race and exclusion. The handwritten in trouble and the public killing line make the page's social pressure turn openly violent.
A menacing social-entry page: 'Going to talk to the tough men' who 'think it is apprehensive,' the speakers entering 'a restraunt' and watching 'others leave,' framed by a now-charged racial comparison drawn from the source. Loss saturates it - 'We are the last drop / of rain, / you will ever see,' 'So filled with loss / I do not permit a sunset' - before the turn to weapons and erasure: 'picking up a riffle,' 'Engineer or cowboy; / it's close to the same boot,' the handwritten 'in trouble' written above the blacked-out words beside 'We don't view girls', and 'Then is when we kill in public.' Source spellings 'restraunt', 'excape', and 'riffle' are preserved; blacked-out deleted material was omitted.