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This one is called The Task.

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As if God were an old man
always upstairs sitting

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about in sleeveless undershirt
asleep, arms folded,

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stomach rumbling, his
breath from open mouth

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strident presaging death.

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No.

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Gods in the wilderness,
snakes door, that huge tundra

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room, no walls and a sky
roof, busy at the loom.

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Among the berry
bushes rain or shine

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that loud clacking and whirring
irregular but continuous.

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God is absorbed in work,
and he is the spacious hum

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of bees not the din.

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And he is far off our screens.

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Perhaps listens for prayers
in that wild solitude.

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And hurries on with
the weaving till it's

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done, the great garment woven.

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Our voices clear under
the familiar blocked

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out clamor of the task can't
stop their terrible beseeching.

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God imagines it
sifting through at last

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to music in the
astounded quietness,

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the loom idle, the
weaver at rest.

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