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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Handwritten lines move from soaring sounds of Buffolo and Riffle to M-16 and South, followed on a separate physical row by Askin. A second group places Angles beside women holding up half the sky and the attribution Mao se Tung, Last part. A final command says to take the Shit out of it.
Weapon and sky images sit beside a blunt closing instruction. The handwritten attribution is part of the page, not independent confirmation of a quotation or historical event; source spellings and uncertain implications remain unexpanded.
A handwritten page moves from 'the soaring / Sounds of Buffolo' and 'Riffle to the / M-16' to a quoted saying that women 'hold up half the / sky', attributed to 'Mao se Tung', with the note 'Last part'. It closes in large letters with a command to take it 'out of it!'.
The page reads like working notes for the poem sequence: an image of soaring sound, a weapon, a borrowed political slogan, and a blunt editorial order. The shift from small script to large block letters at the end gives the final command the force of a note addressed back to the draft itself.