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By Jack Joseph Smith

Good Luck Looking at the cross Making the sign of the cross Out of respect,, then, just with that inner voice Will speak the truth about anything,, that has already happened Eyes on the cross Christ dosen't take long It works real well,, saying thanks,; a little bit at a time

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Good Luck presents the cross as a practical discipline of gratitude and truth-telling, something that works not through spectacle but through repeated, inward attention.

Its tone is surprisingly calm. Faith here is less doctrine than a method for facing what has already happened.

Claude

'Good Luck' treats devotion as a quick, practical ritual: 'Looking at the cross / Making the sign of the cross / Out of respect,' then dropping into 'that inner voice' that 'Will speak the truth about anything,, / that has already happened.' Prayer is retrospective and efficient - 'Christ dosen't take long / It works real well' - and the poem ends in modest, metered gratitude, 'saying thanks,; / a little bit / at a time,' faith dispensed in small change rather than grand conversion.