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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The writer moves from flesh and stimulation to political poetry, survival, illustrative art, ecstatic moments and understanding. A spaced Fuck It and a LATER line interrupt the opening passage.
The writer questions how repeated stories and recovered data can carry experience, then asks what survives and how an artist's life enters illustration. Typed repairs and unstable words prevent a settled reading of several clauses; the page's address to Washington and its signoff-like JIM remain part of this draft rather than verified context.
A dense typed stream of consciousness that moves from 'warmth and softness' to 'F u c k I t !!' and 'LATER ... JIM', then to 'A page of polictical poetry' and remarks on 'Illustrative art', ending 'Visions have the time, but of course vision is with you if you have the time'.
The page reads as a deliberately unedited, self-mocking burst ('misspelled, what the fuck'), and its typed spellings are kept as written.