By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker praises poetry alongside rough life and beauty, returns home with a heart, and questions the rightness of earlier hurt. The speaker closes by saying nothing is wrong across the Pacific and North America.
The speaker asks for doing it all twice without explaining the repetition. The return home and the memory of hurting remain unresolved beside the closing assurance.
A short typed lyric titled 'A'hieuga' in which the speaker says 'Oh how sweet the poetry / Not better than the rough life', notes 'A women just as pretty / And you got to do it all twice', and arrives 'first time home with a heart'. He admits 'nothing says I was right when I went to hurt' and ends 'And across my Pacific and North America; / nothing is wrong...'.
The poem weighs art against lived hardship and ends on a qualified peace. The trailing ellipsis leaves 'nothing is wrong' sounding tentative rather than settled, and the plain, conversational lines give the homecoming a confessional, slightly weary tone.