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By Jack Joseph Smith

Any Girl Please don't let her look Sideways, the glance The stream from Heaver The glory that takes) you away The fight is over for more than troubble that is your giving in again The sticks and stones; the ache The loss of thought The replacement of image Stay away girl Let me just fight As if I was young without caring

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This page pleads for distance from a girl whose sideways glance, strange `Heaver`, and glory threaten to replace thought with image and pull the speaker back into a younger fight.

The poem reads like self-defense against beauty. The corrected transcript preserves the odd source forms, which make the threat feel typed into the page rather than smoothed into standard language.

Claude

Any Girl. Don't let her look sideways — the glance, the stream from Heaven, the glory that takes you away. Sticks and stones, ache, loss of thought. Stay away girl — let me just fight as if I was young without caring.