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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker counts school terms and people who do not get hit, then describes rivers, tides, deserts and mountains. Handwritten revisions add a last Tumbler, a shoe-laces comparison, SEE and a separate block about a belt and PAints.
The writer revises the count and the clothing imagery across typed and handwritten layers. Several attachments and one closing margin word remain uncertain, so this interpretation does not treat the fragments as one settled sentence.
A heavily revised page: typed rows such as 'My friends go to school / Each tri mester', 'Tearing the rivers / and the tides / and VALLEY'S AWAY' and 'Spliting our own deserts' sit beside handwriting such as 'inside this last / Tumbler', 'Like SHOE LACES UP GrANd his', 'down', 'DENVEr', and a margin block 'He wore / A belt, PAints / polled UP, Those / Negro's ARE USED / To wearing PAints As'.
The typed poem imagines a group reshaping rivers, valleys and deserts, while the handwriting adds a second layer whose order is uncertain. The margin block is a speaker's remark about clothing and is kept as written without being treated as a fact about anyone.