By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
Fear, bodily damage, collapse, and repetition drive this page toward the title's hard limit: `no more` becomes the only possible stance.
The poem is about boundary as much as pain. It shows someone trying to stop a cycle that feels bigger than any single event, with the handwritten curved mark visually emphasizing the turn at `I said no more` without adding words.
'No More' is a litany of giving out: 'When I didn't take it any further / When I got scarred and lost / When I saw it tumble / Just kike that,, bones bent.' Collapse stays internal - 'I fell down in my head / and cared,, didn't cry however now' - and resolves into flat refusal, 'I said no more,, that's al.' The closing paradox locks the door, 'Never no better / than no more,' where stopping is the best outcome available because nothing improves past it.