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[Unedited] Luis Alberto Urrea with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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You Who Seek Grace From a Distracted God

The first line of the first poem is, you who seek grace from a distracted god. Then it's all about god, or about our yearning. And so this is a poem that was inspired by anti imigrant rhetoric. I'm not meant namein any namesbut and it's a journey through the first hours of the morning of people desperately trying to get to work. This is an echo of my own mornings taking many busses to many awful jobs. When i say we, i mean every one of us,every one of us,. everybody can really share.

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