The Star

By Jack Joseph Smith

She was one of your friends She crossed the line, but never came back Tumed into a colossus; she lost demention, never accomplishing what she dined on, those Pyramid's that refuse to sink During her act, each agent and do-gooder, had a better play for her However, the real and mexaggerated problem was, that power changes its dominion But growing up by chance, didn't happen to go along, with every scene and style she caught, im her extended children's theatre rehearsalseee

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A portrait of a woman whose ambition and fame outpaced her self-knowledge, where crossing the line into stardom meant losing dimension while agents and do-gooders competed to reshape her.


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The star crossed the line but never came back — and the poem suggests that fame itself is the mechanism of disappearance. Each agent and do-gooder offering a 'better play' only accelerates the loss of dimension, until what remains is not a person but a colossus, monumental and hollow. The closing image of a children's theatre rehearsal reveals the scale of the irony: all that power was still performing in someone else's extended show.