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By Jack Joseph Smith

The difference in life, like the glide in old fashioned math Several times I have watched myself slid; and been caught by angels,. and hell raisers at the same time Something happens when you leave life, and then turn around and start back in As if you didn't always watch yourself, realizing you were always watched before: I wanted so badly to say, I never went to school So that when I saw a good circle,, no matter how it came to be;, I could necessarily say,. I know this will never end

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GPT

Leaving life and turning back becomes a strange lesson in being watched, saved, and seized at once, until even the shape of a circle promises an ending that will never finish.

Angels and hell-raisers arrive together, refusing any simple moral sorting of rescue. The poem's best insight is that return changes self-awareness: once someone has crossed out and back, ordinary perception feels permanently observed. The closing circle is beautiful because it joins ignorance and intuition, letting the speaker claim permanence without schooling.

Claude

A meditation on leaving life and starting back in, caught by angels and hell raisers at the same time. The speaker wants to say I never went to school so he could see a good circle and know it will never end.