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20.1.05 13:05
Psalm 81 *

All all come before you
Big wigs and small
The down and out
The up and coming
The boisterous the preposterous
Left fielders right wingers
The motley the mortified
Flag wavers free loaders
What a procession!

Every one cut down
The scythe ranging wide and far (those bony implacable arms
Those harvester's hands!)

Like the newborn fawn's
Legs sheared off in the long grass

Bundled in
Guts and spring wheat
Eyes
Half opened in birth
Half closed
In death

Harvest and planting
The hunter
Stuffs his sack and strides on

Have mercy on us
Have mercy

DANIEL BERRIGAN, translator
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