Untitled ("My husband says i it is the Native")
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker reports what the person named huspand says about Native American spirit, fighting and a shaman, then repeats a group's claims about winning and becoming a tribe.
The speaker ends with shame that the greatness of warrows would translate into good luck. The poem gives these claims through reported speech and a collective voice; it does not establish them as facts about a people or spiritual tradition.
The poem relays what 'My huspand says': that 'the Native / American' 'gives us our spirit / to fight', that 'Their Shaman says no to / our ways', and that 'we have become a tribe', ending 'such / a shame that the greatness of warrows / would translate such good luck...'.
The poem is built from reported speech, so its claims about spirit, tribes and winning belong to the husband and the Shaman as the speaker repeats them. The ending's 'shame' and 'good luck' pull against each other and are left unresolved. 'huspand', 'seperation', 'wright', 'loose' and 'warrows' are typed forms.