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+title: A hard game
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Autocento of the breakfast table
+    css: autocento
+...
+
+You think building Hoggle's a hard game?  \
+You know bunk.  Writing a ghazal's a hard game.
+
+Let's meet in a place where words & fabric play--- \
+but not plastic words.  Boggle's a hard game.
+
+A cookout where we can hash our differences \
+over steak, though making it sizzle's a hard game.
+
+Let's go to a brothel, rub shoulders with bare \
+shoulders, or a bar.  Being wastrel's a hard game.
+
+Maybe we could switch professions, you and I, \
+you write the poems, I'll puppet Fozzie - a hard game.
+
+When you call me, you never say my name.  \
+Creativity's a hose---checking the nozzle's a hard game.
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+title: A real writer
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Autocento of the breakfast table
+    css: autocento
+...
+
+Sometimes I feel as though I am not a real writer.  \
+I don't smoke.  I don't wake up early but I don't sleep \
+all day either.  I find myself increasingly interested \
+in dumb luck.  Chance: I've found two dimes in as many \
+days.  Does this mean I've found twenty lucky pennies?  \
+I want you to participate.  You the reader.  You, \
+the probabilistic god of my dreams.  I've been having \
+strange dreams lately.  I don't remember them but \
+they leave impressions.  A bare foot.  A tunnel \
+of hair from her face to mine.  A boat stranded \
+in a living-room.  Something warm.  Something like the sun \
+through my eyelids.  A hand, with all its dead symbology.  \
+My teeth have fallen out.  No, you pulled them out \
+with your hands, threw them over your left shoulder \
+like salt, to wish away bad luck.  I have something \
+to tell you: bad luck follows like a dog.  It lets you \
+get ahead for a few days, a week, a year.  You'll see, \
+it'll bite your sleeping face when you're not looking.  \
+I've been dreaming about the future, I know.  In my dream \
+I am not a writer, I live in a place with rain.  You \
+are sunning yourself as you read this, on a beach or \
+maybe a desert.  Let me move in with you.  I can cook \
+or clean or take care of your dog while you're out.  \
+I'll never have to write again.  I'll watch television.  \
+Do I want to become a writer?  Tell me.  Should I smoke?  \
+I can sleep all day in your attic if you want, become \
+your god, lose my own, settle to the bottom of the bed \
+like a boat in a river, dream about nothing but furniture.