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By Jack Joseph Smith

Molly You can take a thought, and think it twice; or you can keep it, and think it once I know she has been along cayons I don't know what she did there, put I know she has been there, all the same What we live with She is that stare toward the Surr When your working hard,, and it is still daylight,, if you have ever known her, Take a look at the last All the way around

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AI Interpretation

GPT

"Molly" turns thought into a discipline of attention and makes her presence the final daylight stare that hard work cannot exhaust.

The opening distinction between thinking twice and thinking once gives the poem a hard, almost ascetic intelligence. The canyon reference matters because it suggests a history the speaker cannot fully know but cannot dismiss either. By the end she becomes less a person than a sustaining orientation, something seen at the rim of effort when the day still refuses to close.

Claude

Molly / canyons version: think a thought twice or keep it and think it once. All the way around her stare toward the Sun.