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The speaker compares an unnamed thing's weight with a sick old widow standing in front of a Chicago Coin.

The comparison joins physical weight to illness and age without identifying the thing being weighed.

A three-line handwritten fragment: 'But it wasn't any heavier / than a sick old widow in / front of a Chicago Coin.'

The fragment measures an unnamed weight against the image of a sick old widow standing in front of a Chicago Coin, joining a physical comparison to age and illness. Its conversational opening 'But' suggests a line lifted from a longer passage, and the thing being weighed is never named on the page.