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The Quick and the Dead
- Christianity & Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 59, Number 3, Spring 2010
- p. 452
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452 CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE The Quick and the Dead Company comes and the temperature drops. Minds feign away from what is real, And in the talk above their cups, Inventing what they do not feel, Artificial sweeteners mix And make the social punch less tart. Attendance at such politics Drains intelligence from the heart. Robots get along so well: The age is skilled in mechanical things, But those who are made from a living cell Have lost the grace of their marryings. The social body is old and sore. What's sacred, liniment now anoints. Does life move in anything anymore Without great pain in all its joints? JENE ERICK BEARDSLEY ...
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