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By Jack Joseph Smith
Molly
What we live with
She is a circle in the Sun
She is a rainbow around the Moon
I only saw that complet'ly once
But I don't care
Cause she is clear
When it is rainy too
What ar ya gonna do
After the ends of thid
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
GPT
"Molly" turns a woman into celestial weather, a circle in the sun and a rainbow around the moon whose clarity survives rain and even the imagined end of things.
The poem's cosmology is intimate rather than grand, making Molly visible through rare signs that still feel personal. Saying the full vision was only seen complet'ly once does not weaken it; it makes that moment sufficient for everything that follows. The abrupt ending on thid keeps the page fragmentary, as if devotion has already outlived whatever ending is coming.
Claude
A shorter 'Molly' renders her as rare celestial signs -- 'a circle in the Sun', 'a rainbow around the Moon' -- that the speaker 'only saw... complet'ly once', though 'I don't care' because 'she is clear / When it is rainy too'. The page breaks off mid-question, 'What ar ya gonna do / After the ends of thid', so the devotion stays fragmentary, already outrunning whatever ending was coming.