Incomplete renunciation (a poem by Marilyn Nelson)

INCOMPLETE RENUNCIATION

Please let me have
A 10-room house adjacent to campus;
6 bedrooms, 2 ½ baths, formal
dining room, frplace, family room,
screened porch, 2-car garage.
Well-maintained.
And let it pass
through the eye of a needle.

(Marilyn Nelson, from Christian Poetry in America Since 1940)

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