By Jack Joseph Smith
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The Holy Ghost arrives as a trip and duty through heaven, hell, good, evil, divided thought, struggle, pain, joy, the hung, and a shared human dream.
Calling the Holy Ghost a trip risks irreverence, but the poem uses that language to stress intensity, duty, and total psychic involvement. Thought goes seperate ways under life's murmer, while struggle and the Holy Ghost are made friends and pain and joy come from the trap like the hung. The final claim that everyone dreams the same way pushes toward a collective human condition rather than private revelation.
Segues into the Holy Ghost as trip, 'some of our Heaven and all of our Hell,' the murmur making thought go separate ways. Five friends: pain and joy 'from the trap,' and everyone in the world dreams the same way.