By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes work and solitude, argues against giving up lives for something worse, recalls seeing living things die and mentions a hawk at the window.
The speaker adds a handwritten wish for something better to the account of death. The connection between that continuation and the hawk remains a reading choice, with handwriting and placement marked for follow-up.
The poem says 'Our work / Out solitude / We cross the stars', 'We have less of the Sun / Than others / But we care about / right and wrong', 'I have seen living things die / Humans included', with the handwritten 'or wish for somEthiNg / bEttEr', and ends 'I have had the beak of a hawk / at my window'.
A plain statement of a hard life ends with a hawk at the window. The handwritten continuation's case and attachment remain provisional.