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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
In a few lines, the poem sets the word wonderful against a bleak verdict that hell has only grown worse.
This untitled page uses wonderful within its first line, where it replaces up before Greek. The following lines name Syphassis, a different up and down, and the mountain before saying that life should know hell is worse than it ever was. The contrast with wonderful belongs to the body, not a separate title.
This untitled seven-line page begins 'Contuer class and way wonderful Greek', with 'wonderful' typed above a struck 'up', then 'Syphassis has a different up and down now / Whereever it it iis / Ever inbetween the mountain'. It ends with 'Life in general should know / Hell is worse / Than it ever was'.
The opening lines are garbled and stuttering, spelling and syntax slipping as if the speech itself has been damaged, and 'Syphassis' with its 'different up and down' suggests a body or mind knocked off balance. The last three lines are plain and flat, and that sudden clarity makes the verdict on hell land harder.