By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes withheld speech, loss and rhyme, then recalls a man getting out of a cab while others leave without an answer.
The hand-printed passage describes a bent figure whose brain did not drum. The writer adds a separate note about fighting. Unread cursive leaves the connection between the opening silence and the cab scene unresolved.
The page opens on a silence, 'she hasen't said a word,' and a claim that 'you have found the / answer in loss', then reaches a split word written 'Jodge- / ment' and fragments such as 'No folly, she was' and 'up by stuck, I went to', before a hand-printed scene with a 'cab'. It closes with 'most went away / without an answer.' and, after a gap, '(to Fight)'.
Crowded cursive gives way to a hand-printed passage that reads like a stage direction or a remembered scene, with short blunt sentences such as 'You have seen it. Bent.' The phrase 'His brain though did not / drum.' keeps the effort inward and unresolved. Several cursive words remain unread, and the bracketed note at the foot reads like a label for the next section.