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while the shadows like long fingers
over the haystacks that sweep past
keep shocking him
because he is riding backwards.

— Anne Carson

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My religion makes no sense
and does not help me
therefore I pursue it.

She doesn't get to say much in the official biography —
I believe they are out of wine, etc.,
practical things —
watching with one eye as he goes about the world
calling himself The Son Of Man.

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