By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
For Molly; For Christ's Sake... turns Christ into a rough comic figure of wine, herb, appetite, time, and perception.
The corrections sharpen the poem's irreverence. Its sacred language is not solemn; it is pushed through food, age, payment, and bodily pleasure, making the religious address feel deliberately unruly.
'For Molly; For Christ's Sake...' pushes sacred language through food, payment, and bodily pleasure until it turns irreverent. The complaint is comic: 'Nothing done, for Christ sake / Didn't take a damn thing,' though 'he brought the wine' and 'did not pay for herb.' Appetite becomes privilege - 'Eating good is fun, especially if your / are the Son of God' - before the poem drops into time and perception with 'One hundred years / Nothing' and 'Who sees ten things / when they make a step.'