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By Jack Joseph Smith

My cousin Lynnie used to say, in kind of a report on life, "that's what you get for being good looking; and that is what you get for liken someone that! is" Complain all you want, you should not be the one who is paying for it On this level, I can only tell you about what I have read; even when you are young and going down, the best their has ever been, have taken a look at it,. and summed it up

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Lynnie's hard saying about beauty and desire frames a worldly lesson in who pays for attraction and how even the best lives have already looked down that road and named its cost.

The poem speaks like someone repeating family intelligence that has been earned rather than theorized. Good looks and liking the wrong person are treated not as blessings but as liabilities that someone else should not have to cover. Its closing gesture toward what "the best" have already summed up makes experience feel grimly collective.

Claude

The page repeats cousin Lynnie's hard 'report on life' -- 'that's what you get for being / good looking; and that is what / you get for liken someone that! / is' -- treating beauty and desire as liabilities. The speaker hedges his own authority, 'I can only tell / you about what I have read', then leans on collective experience: 'the best their has ever been, / have taken a look at it, / and summed it up', so the cost of attraction feels already inventoried by others.