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me and 1 Corinthians 15:51, we go way back. i saw it first some ten years ago, it was an allusion, it didn't make any sense. i looked at it in context; the context was bullshit. it is a very beautiful phrase but the banality of the sentiment had always bothered me until finally, finally, the missing link was revealed via an audiobook of poems i had acquired, through questionable means, in a recent flight of literariness.

it's a poem (duh!) that perfectly describes what it's like to be a medical professional by galway kinnell which echoed in my head first as "dead! incorruptible!" which i thought was a biblical thing, like "every one of them for his own good" et cetera, except it wasn't. it wasn't a biblical thing at all, it was, in fact, "earth! invisible!" which is exactly almost the inverse, the reverse, the obverse of whatever paul's saying, it's man and his material things

and while the man without a doubt knows his rilke, i hesitate to say, well, anything. i'm not saying anything. it's just a thing that happened inside my head.