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“But go on,
tell me about Adam,
about Job,
about Abraham,
about God.
tell me about free will all you want,

but what free will does a child have

when the only time

the sky answers his prayers
and open its palms.

Are not to sing David’s psalms,
but to spit a deadly bomb?

The Fear of Being a Nobody

“I always carried this feverish fear within me,
this indomitable terror of being a nobody.”