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Recorded Reading (1:00): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tyxeof8spzb0gc52kg7yj/Respectability.mp3?rlkey=8j8qtwx0zsw8sh0wqi7gfjnhs&dl=0

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Respectability

They told Him:

“We don’t talk to those people
We don’t care about them

They don’t even wash
The field dirt off their hands
Before lunch

Obviously
We are very different

We do
Wash our hands
Making us
Of course
Vastly superior citizens…”

Lunchtime came

They found Him
Sitting in the fields
Laughing with the workers
Talking about sin and redemption

With unwashed hands
Also

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