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By Jack Joseph Smith

Never Gone All is well,, so good, that we fear change We know romantic ideas brought us here But they will never come after us, so we will make ourselves classic, and keep it that way When there is a mouse in the house, there arn't any rats,, and when there is ever one rat in the sewer, your still somewhat safe from the gas Let structure dismantle gradually, or it will colapse The chicken or the egg Romantic thought will always appear on its own

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Romantic ideas are admitted as the force that brought us here, even while the poem argues for restraint, classic form, and slow dismantling.

The page stages change as a structural problem: romance brings the speaker here, classic form contains it, and gradual dismantling prevents collapse. The mouse, rats, gas, and chicken-or-egg images make emotional form feel domestic and dangerous at once.

Claude

The romantic impulse is acknowledged as the force that brought us here, and then the poem argues for its own slow dismantling — form and restraint applied to the energy that started everything.