By Jack Joseph Smith
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Christ becoming Jesus is imagined as a refusal of falseness, offered only because human beings could see it too, even while wanting to shed themselves.
The change from Christ to Jesus feels less theological than experiential, as if a figure became real by refusing to be phony, false, or merely symbolic. The poem trusts vision only because Jesus trusted others could witness what he saw for themselves. "We want to get rid of us" gives the piece its bleak force, making self-erasure sound like a common human urge against which simple walking becomes a moral act.
This page reflects on Christ's transformation into Jesus as an act of trust in shared perception, claiming he would hav e never told us what he saw unless we could see it ourselves. It credits Jesus with refusing to be fhony, false about the vision he carried, treating honesty as inseparable from his identity. The poem pivots outward to the shared wish to get rid of us, then sets Jesus's possible busyness against the plain fact that he walked, grounding a large theological claim in a small physical verb.