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By Jack Joseph Smith

Do I have to be abstract They want the blood of God To make Thundred Birds, and comfortable underwear I never said that understanding me would be as hard as going to school This is what we have here, God's blood being spent on your fooling around; and this is God's blood, I mean everybody knows that this is where God came from You can not supply the world with Gods beginnings with what you know God does not want

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This repeat of 'Do I have to be abstract' turns God's blood, comfort, school, and false understanding into a furious attack on spiritual trivialization.

With the OCR noise removed, the page reads as a tighter protest against making sacred origins serve convenience and spectacle. Its argument keeps returning to the mismatch between divine beginnings and what people claim to know.

Claude

Opening with the exasperated title-question 'Do I have to be abstract', the page rages at sacred origins being put to trivial use: 'They want the blood of God / To make Thundred Birds, and / comfortable underwear'. The speaker insists his difficulty is real but not academic - 'I never said that understanding / me would be as hard as going to / school' - and keeps circling the same charge, that 'God's / blood' is 'being spent on your fooling / around'. The closing lines guard the mystery of divine beginnings: 'You can not supply the world with / Gods beginnings with what you know', and what 'God does not want' is exactly this domestication of the holy into product.