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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker seeks recognition through love and a child, calls resistance political, and disputes the connection between glory, Creation and personal action.
Advice to keep ears open and attend to those who came before sits beside a claim of political resistance. Handwriting adds birds and frogs as friends, waring archatecture and the description of glory as one false limb. Creation is separated from what the speaker has done, though an omitted revised verb leaves an earlier command incomplete.
A run of statements moves from 'No stopping his thoughts he has his right of passage' and the hope to 'be remembered as having at least one child' to 'My resistance is serious, extreamly political'. It ends by claiming 'everything amounting / to glory has alwys been one false limb / and that is why Creation has nothing to do with what I've done'.
The page reads like a string of declarations, with advice from 'He' mixed into the speaker's own claims. Handwritten revisions add 'So clean as my birds, my frogs as friends', 'Consacrate the lock' and 'in its finest waring archatecture', making the typed lines stranger and more physical. The close sets personal action against glory and Creation.