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"Living Forever" treats belief in God as intellectually absurd and existentially transformative, holding skepticism and practice in the same breath.

Bringing Jesus and Sinatra together makes the poem sound half theological and half streetwise, suspicious of piety but unwilling to dismiss what it does to a life. The key move is not argument but persistence: continuing anyway becomes the real test. The title suggests that endurance itself may be a form of immortality, however compromised.

'Living Forever' is a compact paradox that yokes the collection's two patron figures: 'As far as I know / Jesus and Sinatra / Say belief in God / Is abstract and absurd.' The turn is pragmatic rather than doctrinal - 'But look what happens / to your life / When you keep on / doing it anyway' - locating immortality not in proof of God but in the persistence of practice despite its absurdity.