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 \nSpare me,o Lord!  \nSomething's gone wrong.There's a distortionin the clock,my usual music  \nkicks beside the point.Who has betrayed me now?  \nIam under.  \nEach life I dedicate  \na day.  \nLove is gone.  \nIt's little charm  \nhas drained me  \nunfilled me  \nused me up.  \nSpare .  \nI do not writeto friends today.I do not knowthe last nameof my visitor  \nwho sits in my parlormaking marriage proposalsand sipping gin.What of him?  \nWhat is a resurrection?An eleven-year-old orphantold me onceof his beliefin orphanagesespecially ifyou can beat themat their own game.Is that it?  \nI see sweet sungiven to sky;dry sky givento wet clouds;  \nclouds to narrow wind;wind to birds,birds to sour soil,soil to berries.  \nDon't get me wrongIt is not lovethat perishes menor orphansnor soft berries:that would be luxury.  \nI am small  \nwithout these deathsof finishing things.What lastsis always forgotten  \npreserve..…  \nThe strong chaosis luxury too.It is beatable.  \nIt requires no death.One faces itwith a narcotic:a city,a party,a good meala kissor nothing  \n# But the real chaos\n\nis unbeatable beautifully.It drains,it needs flesh,it requires spirit;it cannot be facedtoo often  \nor it will consume.Each day is terminal.  \npreserve..  \nDeath seems  \nso much more adjustable,so very secure;why not just sit backwith patient fantasies,let things happen?Influence nothingWhy not?  \nWhy must the waste  \nof plagues and little meneasing into caricatures  \nof their own funerals,  \npaced by hearses,  \nbedded by hallelujahs  \ngive me this day?  \nThe resurrections of the deadsquat,they do not ascend.I want Christ in gossamer,the opinion of butterflies,the dialogues of stones,the chance not to start againbut to turn back,perhapsto turn away;  \nto check dry pausing painwith aspirin;to alter my disguise.  \nIt takes energy to rise …  \npreserve my ripe lifebefore it overripesbefore it rots.  \n# Inquiry\n\nI.  \nIn the room a quarrel held among the pickings of afternoonrun into the woman's throat,her hat upon her lovelike crust upon a well-kept fire  \nthe cold grease of her son's lies now to melt with allhot questioning and interrogation of ninety-degree law.  \nIs it your boy?Yes.To the boy:You stole the bike?He made me.Who?Jo-Jo.  \nand the fallen tears  \nsmashed into the apple of his eyea saucy survival of stillborn cops  \n2.  \nShe bowed her head.A kitchen day without pay movedin her wonderful hands.She bowed her head and said:Daniel you know I bring you up right.I did I do  \nI try.Why you do this?His thirteenth lie gave no answer.My brother sat a salary away,an inch,a foot,a success,a justice.His son without a bike,  \nstruck down by force:a theft a repor","cbCaib4qBkqGyZRQ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib4qBkqGyZRQ","pdf",1317655,28,"English","# Through the ceiling\n# But the real chaos\n# Inquiry","[{\"question\":\"What central spiritual questions does the speaker raise in “Through the ceiling”?\",\"answer\":\"The speaker prays for preservation and repeatedly asks what is meant by resurrection and where love and life’s gifts have gone, linking personal loss to moral and spiritual uncertainty.\"},{\"question\":\"How does “But the real chaos” frame death and suffering?\",\"answer\":\"It suggests that chaos is both seductive and consuming, while death is depicted as adjustable and secure—yet still exposes the speaker’s desire to rise differently or turn back.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of “Inquiry” in the text?\",\"answer\":\"“Inquiry” stages an interrogation-like scene where wrongdoing is uncovered, families are judged through investigation, and guilt and punishment are pursued as a form of moral order.\"}]","Through the ceiling | PDF",1789959910,43]