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the way of all flesh

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I thought about the title

first

title of a play

before that

something scriptural

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three to five acts

the sphinx’s riddle gives us

four

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there are tickets

paid

throughout mortality

the kind that

with a kind of magic

should become

the summons

of a claim

on erosion

loss of property

with less

with which

to pay

for greater need

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but who

will be our advocate

who

will pay

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there is no way

in this

unless history

plus the present

and guesses toward the future

should break

for a while

then reassembled

with adhesion

in the blood

of reconciliation

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the way of our flesh

fleshly

otherwise

prevailing

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