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By Jack Joseph Smith
The End Of The Twine
You are no longer a myth
And you are a man
with no money
And that
raps it up
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The addressee is no longer a myth but a man with no money, and the speaker says that raps it up.
The language collapses mythic stature into material limitation. The source's spellings remain part of the record, not a reason to add a more specific identity.
Under 'The End Of The Twine', the addressee is brought down from legend to lack: 'You are no longer a myth / And you are a man / with no money', and 'And that / raps it up'.
The title's twine and the source spelling raps make the ending a bundle tied off; the poem deflates stature into poverty without naming who the figure is.