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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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Looking away from sun and moon, the speaker learns the Holy Ghost moves like a fast ghost, redirects exhaustion, twirls an invisible knife, and makes giving back unbearably slow.
The ghost is not older but quicker, which turns haunting into a matter of speed and angle rather than age. The advice to find something else when you cannot go further is practical and unsentimental, closer to survival than inspiration. Blue going orange, dark staying fixed, and the knife twirling in an empty hand make the spirit feel dangerous without becoming theatrical.
Holy Ghost as something older in passage only: it goes quicker between places. Tells you when you can't go further to find something else. Watches blue go orange and the dark never change; makes a knife twirl with nothing in his hand; 'We sing a song / We took everything / Given back / Takes so long.'