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By Jack Joseph Smith

That star that shines for you came back and set me on my feet She ran Me old and falling down Her the finest of brown With color it lost it's difference She was so smooth as to be the same Her shin matched mine Except for so Much young and there was no direction about dream Love like a jungle She had them pick me up off the street and take me to the train while I saw her run away Faster than the eye could see No way to Ever see the Sun Where we were is always Night we were not to come home And glance at stardustd Lost

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The page turns rescue, erotic memory, injury, and exile into a dreamlike departure poem where love and night are inseparable.

What survives here is a whole emotional arc: being set on one's feet, being lifted from the street, watching her run, and then ending in permanent night. The page feels like memory under shock, where beauty and ruin are remembered in the same breath and no exit leads back home.

Claude

An expanded 'She ran' that runs from rescue - a star 'set / me on my feet' - through erotic sameness, 'Her shin matched mine / Except for so Much young', to exile: being picked 'up off the street' and put on a train while she runs 'Faster than the eye could see'. It ends in permanent night, 'No way to Ever see the Sun', and 'stardustd Lost', love and ruin remembered together.