By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes milking a holstien, addresses yoo rotten bastards and watches the children after sunset. The handwriting includes repeated glances toward a farm house shack and closes with Midnight; the word before holstien remains uncertain between oily and only.
The speaker connects anger during milking with watching the children after dark. The revised lifed preserves the visible handwritten spelling; the uncertain word before holstien should not be used to settle the poem's meaning.
Handwritten rows say 'I don't FEEL him / when I milk our oily / holstien, yoo rotten / bastards', where the word read as 'oily' could also be 'only', and after a gap 'When the Sun went / down across the fence / I was The eleventh Time / I had lifed my eyes / Counting checking the kids', ending 'and that means Midnight'.
Farm chores and a curse at absent others open the page, and the second part counts the night by glances at the children. Because the word before 'holstien' is unsettled between 'oily' and 'only', the reading does not depend on either sense.