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Little 'I' and the Eucharist Bread

when staring at e. e. cummings’ little ‘i’ —not reading, it reminds me of st. francis’ sublime yet humble lowly jesus: “he hides himself under the little form of bread” if cummings’ little ‘i’ meant the ‘i’ overpowered by something like gigantic rock, overwhelmed by this evil prevailing world, or intimidated by the malicious neighbors, the ‘i’ hidden under a piece of bread is the lord coming as an ‘i’ that is even smaller than the cummings’, though he is the possessor of the power and more than able to punish the world, to save those worthless ‘i’s for st. francis’ reverence on the consecrated piece of bread is not of the dwarfish ‘i’ but of a pious one, let my ‘i’ be not of the blasphemous one’s but of the pious one’s as well, the ‘i’ gazing at the forsaken lord who died on the cross as a lonely ‘i’

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