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By Jack Joseph Smith

There is the light that children play in - I know where it comes from: Paralzed in the spectator age That he does not see with the program in his hand, His Mouth opens because he cannot praise - not heard - So thinking the praise in his hand and the money he paid Makes thinking so enough just then. But Because the light cannot move Because the shadow falls behind Because the word is the back And the fullback made it on the field....(he smiles at the comma and squints at the picture) And the cold seat left - The janitor laughs when he reads the program Wondering why he didn't see what he heard on the radio.

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker considers children's light, a man holding a program, a fullback on the field, and a janitor comparing what he sees with a radio account. The draft includes a parenthetical smile at a comma and squint at a picture.

The writer links spectatorship with a program, payment, shadows, and praise. The provisional spectator age reading belongs to that discussion. The program holder's praise and the janitor's laughter remain part of the literary scene, without establishing its location or a real person's history.

Claude

A handwritten poem: 'There is the light that children / play in -', a man 'Paralzed in the spectator age' who 'does not see with the program / in his hand', the repeated 'Because' lines about light, shadow and the fullback, and 'The janitor laughs / when he reads the program / Wondering why he didn't see what / he heard on the radio.'

The poem watches spectators who have the program but miss the event. spectator is a provisional reading of a word that has no h or m, so it is not ephemeral.