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By Jack Joseph Smith

You got it in your brain When your going up and dowm Touching ground, staying around, that would be a different story Like a good lookimg girl on the street, dosen't it make you lift your nose when you mention, that you are still going places where no one has ever been Spending your life going to places where theoritical people are aloud You don't see a thing, in the blazing sun,. or the edge of dark staying down

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GPT

Ambition is imagined as moving up and down through blazing light and dark edges, driven by the vanity of still going where no one has been even while seeing almost nothing.

The poem keeps tying aspiration to posture and self-presentation, from lifting the nose at a pretty girl to speaking of unexplored places. "Theoritical people" sound like a class of abstract strivers who are permitted a distance from ordinary ground. Its final image is severe: all that movement may end with vision blinded by glare and darkness alike.

Claude

The going-up-and-down-without-touching-ground riff: lift your nose at places where theoretical people are allowed. You don't see a thing, staying down.