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By Jack Joseph Smith

T would argue the pointy, put go ahead and keep on . leaving the world if you want to, and when you see good of any kind, it stairs you, and you'can stay,. or you cam walk away,, and walk across the close sky;, don't mean your from another place,, always means your from where you are» literature she knows,. dosen’t change, dowen't rool over; it says Jesus it is too much, but I: don't guit; way pack to spoon feed,. and the cross between delicate and tough, cler for her,. she nasen’t killed yet, and running out of hell can make a good soul tired

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The poem argues that goodness can make a person stay or walk away, but never escape where they are from, and it sets literature, Jesus, toughness, and exhaustion against a woman still alive inside that trial.

Its central claim is that departure never grants some purer origin; crossing the close sky only confirms the place one already belongs to. Literature is treated as stubborn witness here, something that does not roll over even when experience says it is too much. The ending gives the poem its worn moral weight: running out of hell does not make a soul pure, only tired.

Claude

I would argue the point, but go ahead and keep on leaving the world. Literature doesn't change, doesn't roll over; her cross between delicate and tough, she hasn't killed yet.