By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes business and a wife's refusal to marry a cab-driving beat, then recalls the Sweet Gibbon's football throw and appearance.
The white jersey, black hair and clean rib cage give the remembered player a physical outline. The speaker closes by insisting on doing something hard.
Under the underlined title 'How beautiful is the / Sweet Gibbon' the speaker sets out a family ledger, 'I have a business. My father / has a business', declares 'She is not going / to marry a cab driving beat', then pictures a player who 'threw a football so streight / shouldered' with black hair and a 'hansome' face.
The page moves from social standing to a remembered athletic body described in plain physical details: the white jersey, the blue numbers, the 'rib cage clean.' It ends on a flat, repeated resolve, 'I will do something that / is hard', which turns admiration into a demand on the self. Two words near the top remain unread, so the account of the wife is incomplete.