By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The speaker recalls leeches, ninety days in a guard house and repeated voyages around the Horn, then names an engineer caring for a family at an inland printing press. Handwritten additions mention a hashish floor, hippy talk and a prison-of-war fragment.
The writer connects confinement, maritime work and family responsibilities, but the handwritten insertions leave several links unsettled. The final religious and prison wording remains fragmentary and does not identify a historical prisoner or the engineer.
A draft titled 'Education' with the margin word 'HippiEs': 'Leaches on my arms / After ninety days / in the guard house', 'EAting bricks off thE hAshish floor', 'around the Horn / 20 times', an engineer 'Who was once a Merchant Mariner', and a handwritten '"ChristiAN's / of wAr" / Prison'.
The poem sets jail, drugs and sea work against the title's idea of education. The quotation around ChristiAN's / of wAr is kept provisionally because the opening mark could also be read as a small a; the cancelled Prison attempts are omitted.