By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker follows human passage through footsteps, printed signs, and the body's image, ending with 'At he ends of our faceless imagination'.
The speaker asks us to believe what we once thought we had conceived, then describes moving away without the mind that could recall our passage. The speaker finds signs and drawn lines along that route and imagines no song left unsung.
An untitled typed lyric on Wurlitzer stationery in which 'The world awaits for us to believe / What once we thought we had conceived', while traces of our passage tingle behind us, 'Symbols cry to us in printed signs', and lines draw themselves 'Through the stones of our bodies image' until 'At he ends of our faceless imagination'.
The poem treats meaning as something left behind rather than possessed: footsteps, signs and drawn lines carry what the mind walked away from. The movement through corners, walls 'of no space at all', high and low, wide and narrow, gives a sense of drifting through an abstract city of symbols. It ends by placing every song at the edge of an imagination without a face, both expansive and oddly impersonal.