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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
A handwritten address about blame and courage precedes Acceptance, where the speaker treats architecture as a weapon. The speaker proposes destroying structures while giving imagination another existence, then describes bodies, blood, mines, and a familiar word for an ending.
The speaker joins control of buildings to control of an enemy's dreams. Shattered glass and a bent I beam lead to wounds and the blood of animals. The margin passage about birds learning their chanting offers another account of shared form; its placement remains provisional. At the close, the speaker describes violence as too familiar to feel final.
A handwritten prologue, 'You can't blame Satin for conceiling / an idea', precedes the typed 'Acceptance', where 'This mind comes to speak of archatecture as a wepaon'. It urges 'All Structures by NAME are groundEd After All distroy them while leting / thE imagination find another existance', piles up images of 'this shattered glass, this bent I beam', and ends in handwriting: 'And the pig hockers blood' and 'cause we have All heard that word before'.
The page imagines destruction of buildings and lives as a deliberate design, then turns weary: 'IT is to familiar to be final,'. A margin block about birds 'LEARNED WELL / in their / CHANTING' offers a contrasting harmony. Many words come from overlapping revisions, so the order of the margin block and some single words remain provisional.