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Bare Interiors

HORTLY BEFORE those of us with steady doors would take shelter behind them, I ventured out to the Poor People’s Campaign’s National Call for Moral Revival at Second Congregational Church, where James Shearer growled from the pulpit, “Homelessness shouldn’t exist.” From the pews behind me, I heard just then a fragment of an exchange that reminded me of Samuel Beckett.

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