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By Jack Joseph Smith

I knew about Jesus I knew shoveling coal Was not the devil I knew, taking any kind of order was She just crossed across the universe, maybe he did too See ya' in a little bit The reason poetry says hello to God is not Heaven, for Christ's sake,. it's the Holy Ghost They did not find each other when they were looking, and they knew everything,. wher they were gone

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GPT

This page separates labor from evil, obedience from damnation, and heaven from the real spiritual motion of poetry, which it locates instead in the Holy Ghost.

The distinction between shoveling coal and taking orders is one of the sharpest moral turns in this run of pages. The man and woman crossing the universe feel less like lovers than figures whose paths only make sense after disappearance. Its theology is rough and direct: poetry greets God not through reward, but through living spirit.

Claude

I knew shoveling coal was not the devil, but taking any kind of order was. Poetry says hello to God not for Heaven, for the Holy Ghost. They knew everything when they were gone.