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By Jack Joseph Smith

Any Girl Please don't let her look Sideways, the glance The stream from Heaven The glory that takes you away The fight is over for more than troubble that is your giving in again The sticks and stones; the ache The loss of thought The replacement of image Stay away girl Let me just fight As if I was young without caring

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GPT

The speaker fears a girl's sideways glance, glory, renewed surrender, and loss of thought, asking to fight as if young and uncaring.

The appeal to stay away ties attraction to vulnerability rather than a settled account of a particular relationship. Unclear handwritten marks should not add new wording.

Claude

'Any Girl' begins 'Please don't let her look / Sideways, the glance', and ends 'Let me just fight / As if I was young / without caring'.

A plea to be spared a look that would end the fight; the handwritten mark over the second b of troubble remains provisional.