Page 19
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes liking a street and getting to it, then mentions eggs, a bank with an unread name, 1956 and a song. A later quotation recalls an arm injury, whistling and a stair.
The writer gives the phrase 'that Butch baby broke' without a possessive mark or an explanation of who the baby is. The speaker scrambles and describes letting something loose through second-story windows. Unread words prevent establishing what happened or joining these fragments into one event.
A crowded handwritten page opens 'I like the street, this street,' and 'don't go to the Bank to make', then '"Hey honey it's just eggs."' and 'The Bank of the' followed by an unread name. It says it was 'always so bad for the / Gibby to absolutely' and that '1956 and real. Not a song / could beat it.' A quoted memory follows, 'that Butch baby broke / my arm; Whistling, there / top, stair." I scrambled,', and the account of an 'arm was to heavy' and 'second story windows' ends on 'that looked.'
The surviving lines move between the street, a kitchen remark, memory and injury in a loose spoken register, with the flat admission 'But that's young.' set among them. The arm-breaking and window episode is abrupt and physical and belongs to a speaker, not to verified biography. Several words and two rows remain unread, so the relation between these pieces stays partly open.