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By Jack Joseph Smith

Place I didn't place it Instead,, I looked for it O,, yet, whatever it was,, came apart; and actualy,, that is when I went to find it Desired as much as dreams are not I still left. I knew that there was nothing more solid than the Sum change Things though, and they are not necessarly good fortune Strung out to step to make it stop A gut as a vision then a form Try to

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

This second 'Place' makes change itself the correction, insisting that what one seeks can only be found after it comes apart.

The poem treats place as something discovered only after failure, separation, and coming apart. Its final movement from Sum to change suggests that solidity is less useful than the altered form that follows disintegration.

Claude

A companion to the earlier 'Place' — here change itself is the corrective. What was sought can only be found after it comes apart, making disintegration a precondition for discovery.