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By Jack Joseph Smith
Write these
Poem til
the day I
die, Nothing
Else to do
of course then
is - - -
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker plans to write poems until death and says there is nothing else to do. The speaker trails off while considering what follows.
Writing occupies the remaining lifetime in this short handwritten statement. The final horizontal strokes leave the thought after death unfinished; they do not establish a definite answer.
A handwritten note reads 'Write these / Poem til / the day I / die, Nothing / Else to do' and trails off with 'is - - -'.
The lines state a lifelong commitment to writing, ending on an unfinished thought.