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By Jack Joseph Smith

No Way Of Stopping Her Her mind gets so, that she feels less than far, if not gone A place where music is always an accompanyment in her way of don't When the dream refuses to stop the crow still puts her back on land Across the mountains and against the sea, is A long tiME, to where wisdom gets cross with the yelling At the start is concrete santuary into tomestone silver night Possibly the first find to place the lay of beer and brisket To explain while having a kiss what war is really like Without a word of fighting the world is again gone come sunset Watching how troublesome is the river I am No walking away friends, happening to like it And it is tough to yank away from stars to SAND Each time the world sees I've arrived as a genius afraid of nothing GIVING UP SLOPPY THOUGHT

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GPT

A woman driven by music, dream, refusal, and dusk resists containment, even as the speaker tries to frame her as genius or fate.

The page presents the woman as a motion that cannot be stopped: dream, sea, mountains, war, sunset, river, stars, and sand all become attempted frames for her movement. The canceled phrases and inserted don't make the speaker's framing feel unstable and unfinished.

Claude

The title's claim of unstoppability plays out as a woman whose 'mind gets so, that she feels less than far, if not gone', with 'music always an accompanyment in her way of don't'. The speaker reaches for ever-larger frames -- 'Across the mountains and against the sea', 'tough to yank away from stars to SAND', 'arrived as a genius / afraid of nothing' -- but each frame fails to hold her, and the shouted 'GIVING UP SLOPPY THOUGHT' reads as the poem catching its own overreach. This reading remains provisional because the page transcript is OCR-uncertain and several crossed-out and handwritten phrases (including the final note) are unresolved.