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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes desert music, a twig catching a blouse and a wasp on their body. After looking away, the speaker says the boy is gone and reports that he told the others to leave the speaker alone.
The writer repeats the twig incident in a handwritten margin and revises the closing pronouns. The final ANYTIME accompanies the speaker's claim that they can be stung; the page does not explain the relation between the boy and the speaker.
The page says 'Music in the desert / Can't you just see it', 'You know a twig cought / my blouse the other day', with a handwritten 'A Twig cAught My / blouse ON a / brANch', then 'their was a wasp / on my tit', 'my boy was gone', and ends 'cause I can be stung / ANYTIME'.
Small physical shocks, the twig and the wasp, frame a moment when 'my boy' disappears. The repeated twig passage is a revision layer whose placement is uncertain, and the handwritten 'ANYTIME' ends the page.