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By Jack Joseph Smith

Slighted Taking her womb back for me Of course that would not help At the ends of the earth you can't hold sand She is a soap opria queen and when you walk on to her set it is better to hate her before you love her Which ever comes first will certainly be degrading Or is it the kiss Not the strand or empty hole That makes you whole

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The poem treats intimacy as something humiliating and completing at once, moving from bodily return to degradation and wholeness.

Its compact argument turns love into a scene of exposure: the speaker imagines hatred and love as equally degrading forms of entry into another person's world. The final question makes the source of wholeness uncertain, split between kiss, strand, emptiness, and lack.