By Jack Joseph Smith
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Being There presents flowers, a mule in white robes, and a street person on a stoop to argue that poverty knows what abundance denies.
The imagery is ceremonial and rough at once: flowers remain, the mule bears white robes, and the street person tries to take a stand from the stoop. That combination gives the scene both biblical charge and urban plainness. The real claim comes at the end, where "less" is said to know more about what "more" insists does not exist.
'Being There' / Political Christ opening: no loss of flowers, a mule with white robes on top for a street person on a stoop. 'Less has always / known more about what / more says does not exist.'