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By Jack Joseph Smith
The End Of The Twine
You are no longer a myth
And you are a man
with no money
And that
raps it up
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This page strips a person down from myth to ordinary lack, ending with a curt acceptance of human limitation.
The title and closing line do most of the work. By naming the end of the twine and then reducing the subject to 'a man / with no money,' the poem feels like a hard, almost comic deflation of legend.