Untitled ("Please don't stay pissed off")
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker asks someone not to stay angry, says they are dangerous and mentions Grandpa's shotgun. The speaker then describes children, forgetting their names and limiting what they receive to a spoon.
The speaker combines a warning with an account of care whose limits remain unexplained. The raised typed 8s sits above the Grandpa shotgun row; its placement in the reading text needs another check.
The poem says 'Please don't stay pissed off', 'I am dangerous tee- just like you' (a provisional reading; 'too-' is possible), with a raised '8s' above 'I got Grandpa shotgun', and describes 'The kids' whose names the speaker 'can't remember', ending 'all they get, even if they / want to go further'.
Apology and threat run together, and the account of the children is left in the speaker's own casual words. The raised '8s' is kept as a separate fragment, and nothing in the reading depends on whether the uncertain word is 'tee-' or 'too-'.