By Jack Joseph Smith
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Being There places a street person, a mule, white robes, and flowers under the handwritten heading Political Christ, ending with the claim that less knows what more denies.
The page makes its theology deliberately low to the ground: a mule, white robes, and a street person on a stoop carry the ceremonial charge. The source wording remains rough, especially The is no loss of flowers, which gives the vision an unstable oral pressure rather than polished doctrine. The closing contrast between less and more turns poverty into a form of knowledge that abundance refuses to recognize.
Under the handwritten heading 'Political Christ', 'Being There' stages a low, street-level nativity: 'no loss of flowers', 'a mule / With white robes on top', a 'street person / getting a stand / on a stoop'. Its 'unique' turn makes poverty into knowledge -- 'less has always / know more about what / more says does not exist' -- so the dispossessed see what abundance denies.