By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
Jesus is imagined as pure speed and unappropriable sound, where touching what lies beyond knowledge makes silence split in two and thought optional.
The command to do everything as fast as possible makes Jesus less a moral teacher than a force of radical immediacy. Sound comes from beyond what can be known, yet it remains touchable, which gives the poem a strange material mysticism. The final permission not to think is not anti-intellectual so much as a demand to stop waiting for the proper occasion.
'Jesus' short: for Christ's sake don't forget Jesus' idea — do everything as fast as you can, nobody else. Sound comes from beyond what we know yet we can touch it; only two kinds of silence; nothing is ever appropriate — 'It is alright / if you don't think.'