You Are Not Christ by Sara DiPietro

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You Are Not Christ

Published on Nov 22, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

YOU ARE NOT CHRIST

BY RICKEY LAURENTIIS

For the drowning, yes, there is always panic.
Or peace. Your body behaving finally by instinct
alone. Crossing out wonder. Crossing out
a need to know. You only feel you need to live.
That you deserve it. Even here. Even as your chest
fills with a strange new air, you will not ask
what this means. Like prey caught in the wolf’s teeth,
but you are not the lamb. You are what’s in the lamb
that keeps it kicking. Let it.

FIGHTING FOR SURVIVAL

THE POEM TALKS ABOUT SOMEONE DROWNING AND

The drowning person finds that in the life or death situation, their body has a new strength. They don't think about anything else besides surviving

The speaker uses a metaphor to compare us to the kick of a lamb when it is trapped in the mouth of a wolf

The title is literally saying tHat unlike CHRIST, we cannot walk on water

It is also saying that unlike Christ, we will die and we fear death. But sometimes that fear of death is what keeps us alive

The main point of "You are not Christ" is that our mortality, in a contradictory way, can sometimes be what keeps us alive when we need it most.

"You are not Christ"
BY RICKEY LAURENTIIS

Sara Dipietro

Music:
Sounds of silence instrumental
By vitamin string quartet

Sara DiPietro