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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 thati 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

My cousin Lynnie report on life: that's what you get for being good looking. Complaint should fall on someone else's tab; a summing-up in the mode of inherited wisdom.