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By Jack Joseph Smith
When you want to take
then all on,
you just stay
where you are
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This page makes total commitment paradoxical: when you try to take everything on, you end up staying exactly where you are.
The poem is compact and aphoristic. Its strength is the reversal in the middle, where expansive intention collapses into stasis, making overreach feel indistinguishable from paralysis.