Page 55
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This fragment makes the junkyard and the named place feel like coordinates in a private map of masculine memory.
Even as a short page, it suggests the poem is assembling identity out of steel, geography, and local knowledge. The place-name feels like a pin driven into the memory.
A brief 'Fast Cars' fragment, only two typed lines: 'Each guy had a way, of searching through junkyards / A piece of steel, and some small place for tin too', followed after a gap by the lone handwritten place-name 'LEVENWORTH' written mid-page. It reads as another false start or offcut of the junkyard-and-geography material worked on the surrounding pages, the place-name dropped like a pin into the memory before the poem develops. The typed 'iece' written above the line completes 'piece'.