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By Jack Joseph Smith

Diana Quiting drinking is not a sim I did it across the world and back I saw her as if she were fun Startling, respectful, and just as tall as I; and it was not the glass of Pascal,. she was just raw discovery Where beauty is slim and weak, direct all at once,. the mussel soup you would give it up for; childrem and labor, we use devine in sparing ways,. we of course, the great poets,, so there is silence as well as explosive things, when I saw Diana I said I will skim another rock across the lake,. and I will dive into the one oceam and the one sea, that I know pretty well

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GPT

This version of "Diana" ties sobriety, global travel, raw discovery, and explosive silence together in a vow to keep moving through water and distance after seeing her.

The opening line rejects guilt and clears space for a different kind of reverence. Diana is not polished or symbolic here; she is encountered as fact, a direct beauty that makes the speaker want to skim rocks and dive back into known waters. Silence matters as much as the explosive things, which gives the poem a steadier and more lived devotion.

Claude

This 'Diana' clears guilt at the outset -- 'Quiting drinking is not a sim / I did it across the world and back' -- and meets her as fact rather than symbol: 'Startling, respectful, and just / as tall as I; and it was not the glass / of Pascal,. she was just raw discovery'. Beauty arrives 'slim and weak, direct / all at once', set among children, labor, and the sparing use of 'devine', and seeing her makes the speaker vow to keep moving, 'I will skim another rock across the / lake,. and I will dive into the one oceam / and the one sea, that I know pretty well'.