ANNE CARSON - "TV Men: Lazarus"

Repetition is horrible. Poor Lazarus cannot have known
he was an
imitation Christ,
but who can doubt he realized, soon after being ripped out of his
warm little bed in the ground,

his own epoch of repetition just beginning.
Lazarus Take 2!
Poor drop.
As a bit of salt falls back down the funnel. Or maybe my pity
is misplaced. Some people think Lazarus lucky,

like Samuel Beckett who calls him ‘Happy Larry’ or Rilke
who speaks of
that moment in a game
when 'the pure too-little flips over into the empty too-much.’
Anne Carson, from “TV Men: Lazarus”