The church is a business, and the rich
are the business men.
When they pull on the bells, the
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This poem is also posted in French, thank you for sharing! I am glad to find it in English also, now I understand it better. Indeed, the rich people have all the time in the world to let it melt away, while the poor needs to rush back to their working place and to the priest to get a great praise: Oh joyful hardship! How good you are poor man, keep working hard, for sure you will get a better life after you die, wait 'till you'd touch the other side.
Creeley knows Spain. A place where the church and words bump into each other. Lorca is their Frost married to Tennessee Williams. I salute you Robert.