By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
A woman appears against images of a streetcar, mountain, sea and city trouble. The speaker asks about giving oneself away and says nothing stands in the way of dying for her.
The poem puts presence beside questions of sacrifice without identifying the woman or describing an event.
'Out Of Nowhere': 'She is just there / Streetcar, side of the mountain', 'As well as any Pittsbugh troubble', ending 'You have not died for her yet / But nothing is in your way'.
A sudden presence that tests devotion; Pittsbugh and troubble are kept as typed.