By Jack Joseph Smith
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Looking back on romance and destiny, the speaker imagines himself as unusually conscious of what each attachment meant, and suspects that this very intensity may be why he kept being left alone.
The page turns self-knowledge into a burden. The verified transcription preserves the source's rough spellings while clarifying that the closing claim is simply, `I was left alone`.
The poem opens on an unanswerable question - 'Did she give a thought / to destany / when she meet me' - and contrasts it with the speaker's own constant awareness: 'Each time I had / given a thought about everything / Even:puppy love young / I vastly understood / who I was with / and what she meant.' The bitter twist comes last: the women shared that clear-eyed knowledge - 'All the girls did too' - and that mutual understanding is exactly what isolated him, 'I think that is why / I was left alone,' as if being fully seen, and seeing fully, guaranteed solitude.