By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The Star describes a friend who crosses a line, becomes a colossus, and loses demention, then turns to her act and the problem of power.
The speaker says that everyone had a better play for her during her act. The unfinished account of power changing its dominion leaves its object unresolved.
Under the underlined title 'The Star', the speaker describes a woman who 'crossed / the line, but never came / back;', 'Turned into a colossus;' and 'lost demention'. The page says 'During her act, every- / one had a better play / for her' and ends on the problem 'that power / changes its dominion / over -', a sentence cut off at the page edge.
The draft reads as a portrait of a performer or public figure swollen into a monument, with 'those Pyramid's / that refuse to sink' as an image of fame that will not settle. The revision of 'hoped' to 'dined on' shifts her loss from wishes to appetite. The broken final line leaves the thought about power unfinished.