Untitled ("Most definately when you are a girl")
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker says the sun and moon will not watch for a girl, describes danger while sitting and milking a Holstean, and counts glances toward two children after sunset. The page ends with a dog, a lake and a broken lilly in an unfinished line.
The speaker brings domestic work and watchfulness into the same account. The closing the remains unfinished on the source page; it does not supply a missing action or establish the writer's household.
The poem begins 'Most definately when you are a girl / The sun and the moon won't watch for you', says 'I am just sitting here / It is living danger', and repeats material also found on handwritten page 015: 'When I milk our only / Holstean,you rotten / bastards', 'I had lifted my eyes, counting, / checking my two kids,', ending 'to suck it as a broken lilly, the'.
The poem reworks the milking and counting scene from page 015 in typed form, and its unfinished last word 'the' leaves the line open. The speaker's self-descriptions are the poem's, not biography.