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> Could you post it, Matthew? I looked for it in the three
> Muldoon collections I have and, not finding it, am all the
> more curious to read it now, especially given your description
> here. As for the title's significance, well, as a former inmat--
> I mean, student--of Mt. St. Mary's Seminary (For Wayward Catholic
> Girls), I can tell you when Holy Thursday is: the day before Good
> Friday (i.e., Last Suppertime), which certainly seems to accord
> with the restaurant scene in a trademark black-humorous Muldoonian
> way.
You can take it even further than that; between Good Friday and
the Saturday night, the host (the bread/the body of Christ) is
absent from the tabernacle where it is usually kept (a parallel to
Christ's body being absent from the tomb). So the waiter
"bowing to his absent self" sounds like someone genuflecting to
an empty tabernacle (which you wouldn't normally do). I'm
clutching at straws here, not having read the poem. I too would
like you to post it, please. It sounds interesting.
Kari
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