Unfinished Poem- Kaufman

Kaufam's poem, "Unfinished Poem," is an interesting short poem. Beginning with the title of the poem, I'm assuming that the title means that the subject of the poem can never be finished with his/her thoughts because of the simple fact that there's a host of unending perspectives on religion. OK, now the reason I propose religion is because the passage mentioned words like (holy, prophets, Jewish). But after reading the poem over and over again, I realized that the poem wasn't about religion. The poem is about a subject that lives on or near a "mountains" with a friend. Again, I'm assuming that the subject is probably homeless and lacks hope according to the line, "We live on a holy mountain where the crows and the Crown Plaza rise higher than our expectations." They don't expect much or anything positive being that they describe the clouds calling "doom doom." The term "doom" is associated with damnation. The poem states that "Our lives are wrapped up in newsprint," in other words their lives are bland and dull because newsprint is black and white. Towards the end, the friend wishes to cut her head off to allow all of the memories run out. This is referring to the terrible lives that Jewish lived in ancient history, so the friend wishes that the memories can be told the exact way they were experienced. The weights being lifted in the third to last line are symbolic to baggage and burdens that they have to endure.