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By Jack Joseph Smith

She sees the Southern Cross, she sees the Noth Star; It makes no differance, she knows who you are,. hey, she lost her slipper on a wilder sea, she says, don't forget sweethart,. I didn't walk the street, I walked the beach, you know,. that place where you put your garbage, that place that belongs to me

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Southern Cross and Noth Star fail to matter beside her recognition of who you are, as the lost slipper, wilder sea, beach, garbage, and ownership turn affection into a territorial claim.

The poem shrinks grand navigational symbols once her direct knowledge enters. The slipper on the wilder sea gives the page a damaged fairy-tale trace, but the voice quickly grounds it in the beach as a place where refuse and possession meet. The final claim that this place belongs to her makes tenderness sound inseparable from memory, injury, and ownership.

Claude

Southern Cross and North Star, slipper lost on a wilder sea. I didn't walk the street, I walked the beach is the garbage-place claim of belonging.