Page 33

By Jack Joseph Smith

once made me happy about going anywhere, doing anything; now they make me angry about doing nothing with someone else making sure that I don't see the stars any longer just the weeping of putting my head in the ground like for Steve Mc Gueen, but it isn't, I am so sorry, he tole me when we were younger he went out among the special cord woood and got down on his knees between and weep the old barnical wood slop sober enough to get there the night he heard Steve MaQueen died He was no more than an infeant, but the boys drink young It was longer than seconds ereeding back on the kids, year after year And I saw you, clear with our mud I saw you, and you did not rise up Honny you came down

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker contrasts earlier happiness with anger and recounts someone kneeling among wood and weeping after hearing of Steve's death. Boys drinking young and an address to Honny close the page.

The speaker reports memories and mourning without confirming a historical event. The two surname forms differ, and an overstruck letter in else remains uncertain. The raised between replaces a canceled in rather than adding an independent stanza.

Claude

The page moves from being made 'angry about doing / nothing' to 'the weeping / of putting my head in the ground like for Steve / Mc Gueen', recalls someone who 'got down on his knees' with 'between' typed above the row 'and weep the old barnical wood slop sober', and ends 'Honny you came down'.

Grief over a film star's death is told through someone else's memory of weeping in the woods. The two surname forms 'Mc Gueen' and 'MaQueen' are kept as typed, and the identity behind them is the poem's reference, not a verified event.