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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Star She was one of your friends She crossed the line, put never came back Turned into a colossus; she lost demention, never accomplishing what she dined on, those Pyramid's that refuse to sink During her act, each agent and do-gooder, had a better play for her However, the real and wmexaggerated problem was, that power changes its dominion But growing up by chance, didn't happen to go along, with every scene and style she caught, in her extended children's theatre rehearsalsoo.

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A woman imagined as a star becomes overblown and trapped inside other people's plans.

Crossing the line and becoming a colossus sounds less like triumph than distortion, especially once she loses dimension and never achieves what she fed on. Agents, do-gooders, scenes, styles, and rehearsals crowd around her, making growth feel managed by outsiders. The poem treats power as something that shifts dominion while leaving the person underneath unsteadied.

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'The Star': a woman who crossed the line and didn't come back, turned colossus, losing dimension in her children's-theatre rehearsals.

The poem names fame as a slow dimensional reduction — she flattens rather than falls. 'Those Pyramid's that refuse to sink' is the giveaway image; she is pursuing monuments that cannot cooperate. The final scene — growth by chance refusing to go with her — names stardom's specific injury, which is that maturation can be out-accelerated.