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By Jack Joseph Smith

No one sees Ego step on the heart We know the overwhelming worst of the cross The reason that there is anger about JesuS,, is that he still talks . Ego dosen't even reach the level of habit, like Kazantzakis, probilities are serious, put im your heart, let it remain a fun thing She dosen't walk, she disappears Even Hell has to wait for poetry 2 to come back a

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The poem pits ego against the heart and the cross, then leaves poetry as the force before which even hell must pause.

Its treatment of Jesus is strikingly alive, not doctrinal, because the offense is that he still speaks and therefore still unsettles. Ego is made smaller than habit, a nuisance beside deeper probabilities that must be kept in the heart without losing playfulness. The disappearing woman and the delayed return of poetry give the page an eerie afterlife, as if the real reckoning has not arrived yet.

Claude

No one sees Ego step on the heart. The reason there is anger about Jesus is that he still talks. Even Hell has to wait for poetry to come back.