-ken stewart
that gnawing worm
who owns the worm gnawing within
intimate like a sexual being with a face
someone we sup with or greet;
a worm like Adam and Eve's
strolling with us in the night-light
in the garbage that tickles our nose
and draws us to vomit;
the worm that's that close
that we befriend it
and train it to live in ourselves
and appear "right" with others;
the worm that circles our garden
the one that haunted Cain?
*Reflections of Jean Sulivan
-Instead of satisfying our desires, Jesus sends us back to ourselves at a deeper level.
-...Jesus offers no plan except to go on to his death.
-...his only desire is to tear us away from the known and marry us to another time, making death a path to life, after which everything - morality, politics, economics - takes a new direction toward something both impossible and necessary.
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