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By Jack Joseph Smith

Consintration Where did that go Impossible It was just here You do not ffind it The solar system has spun Things are rough om this earth Needing to find it Now we are talking About stuff’ that is important: My cousinnLynnie used to Say, “that’s what yo,, get for being . good:ilooking, and don't complain, ie you have to pay for it" and going down to cancer ‘at thirty five sums it up

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GPT

This second "Consintration" joins the missing object to Lynnie's verdict on beauty and ends by letting illness at thirty-five stand as the blunt summary of what life charges.

The search remains impossible, but now the poem drags that impossibility fully onto the earth and into the body. Lynnie's line about paying for good looks stops sounding witty once cancer enters the frame. The result is harsh and compressed: concentration becomes the act of staring at a truth nobody wants but cannot simplify.

Claude

Consintration rewrite folds in Lynnie and closes on going down to cancer at thirty five sums it up. The blackest version of this piece.