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This page argues that certain figures seem to carry something singular across the world once, linking public fame, charisma, violence, and the possibility of a real Jesus among them.

With the handwritten page now checked against the scan, the name list reads as a rough roll call of historical presence: Winston Churchhill, Mohammad Ale, Frank Sinatra, Jack Kennedy, and Dr. King. The page treats these figures less as ordinary celebrities than as people whose filmed passage suggests a rare feeling of love moving through violence.

The page proposes a type - 'those / who embody something / that walks across / the world once' - then proves it by name, from 'Winston / Churchhill' to 'Dr. King', figures known mostly 'on film, so quickly they / have past'. What unites the roll call is that 'they had the feeling / of love', and that premise opens the closing gamble: amid 'all the / violence', 'There could be a real / Jesus, who walked once too', sliding the collection's title pairing of fame and Christ into a single argument.