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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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Molly appears as a woman who would reject interrogation, tear through structures, and still be carried back in the mind as something cloistered and best.
The poem admires her refusal before it tries to explain her. "O the wonder of the interior" pushes the attention inward, away from geography and toward whatever depth she keeps hidden. The movement from Hell to cloisters makes her feel both rebellious and sacred without letting either category settle.
This Molly page admires her refusal first -- 'I know she told film to go to Hell / Probably a few steps before she was / gonna be asked to tell her secrets' -- then turns from geography to depth: 'O the wonder of the interior / Sink your thoughts / As far down as you / can go'. Her evasion ('Molly says hey,. / I don't know / But you know she does') and her tearing free of structure ('riped / it up / And gave it up / No religion') leave the speaker carrying her 'way back to the cloisters', where 'She is just the best'.