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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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Do I have to be abstract rejects abstraction through God's blood, Thundred Birds, comfortable underware, school, fooling around, and the claim that the world's knowledge cannot supply God's beginnings.
The page combines theological fury with deliberately ordinary and misspelled terms. Its irreverence sharpens the charge that sacred origins are being spent on trivial comfort.
A theological tirade against trivializing the sacred. The speaker resists abstraction -- 'Do I have to be abstract' -- then names the offense: 'They want the blood of God / To make Thundred Birds,. and / comfortable underware.' He protests that being understood should not be 'as hard as going to / school,' and charges that 'God's / blood' is 'being spent on your fooling / around.' The closing insists on limits: 'You can not supply the world with / Gods beginnings with what you know.' Source spellings ('Thundred,' 'underware,' 'Gods') are preserved.