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By Jack Joseph Smith

There is not a sorrow of love There is not a glory either Knowing nothing Trying to make an epagram Listening to the beautiful brain Ugly in the body And wanting you The one that is impossible Who runs away from rain Comes back in, then laugh's again It is you Catch my eye and my sin

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The speaker denies both sorrow and glory in love, then addresses an impossible desired person who runs from rain and returns laughing. The closing asks that person to catch the speaker's eye and sin.

The final sin brings culpability or moral unease into a request for attention. That shift belongs to the poem's speaker; it does not establish a confession of a particular act.


Claude

Rows from 'There is not a sorrow of love / There is not a glory either' and 'Trying to make an epagram' to 'It is you / Catch my eye / and my sin'.

A love poem that ends by joining desire and fault; epagram and laugh's are kept as typed.