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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker sketches a salvage worker, coastal landscapes, a salesman associated with churches, a tree cutter, a grower and a slaughterman. The final passage imagines a bear hide, a witness and sound in the bear's ear.
The speaker moves among occupations, landscapes and religious images. Physical danger accompanies work in the portraits. Handwritten arrows and an unreadable addition limit the exact connections between some rows; the claims remain literary rather than verified personal accounts.
Typed portraits in seven blocks: the 'Mad salvage-man of the junk yard plains', the 'depossessed' of the river valleys, an 'Anti-Christ stained glass salesman', a 'Dangerous chain-saw cutter', a 'Mystical vegtable grower' who opens 'his land of Bibical space / open to the refugee picker', and a 'Blood letting rug wildlife slaughterman', ending in 'the dark hairy dead ear of the bear;'
The catalogue gives each rural figure an epic epithet, mixing reverence and menace; the handwritten notes near valley/flats stay omitted.