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authorCase Duckworth2015-03-25 21:49:45 -0700
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Flatten directory structure
All content files (*.txt, *.html, *.river) are now in /.
I did this to simplify the compilation step, and to make
linking easier.  I'm still thinking about whether I should
move the contents of js/, img/, and lua/ into /, or into
an 'assets' folder of some sort.  We'll see.
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2title: Exasperated
3id: exasperated
4genre: verse
5
6project:
7 title: Stark Raving
8 class: stark
9 order: 8
10 next:
11 - title: The Death Zone
12 link: death-zone
13 - title: Boy on the bus
14 link: boy_bus
15 prev:
16 - title: AMBER alert
17 link: amber-alert
18 - title: The Death Zone
19 link: death-zone
20...
21
22I didn't write this sestina yesterday. \
23It's the first time I fell behind in my task \
24and hopefully, the only time it will. \
25This means that today I must write two \
26sestinas. If I don't write them today, I \
27will have to write two later down the line.
28
29Although I feel I'm slogging through each line \
30I think I'm doing better every day, \
31though maybe this is wishful thinking: I \
32showed my friend my just-completed task \
33two days ago (my God, was it two \
34entire days? I've no idea what I'll
35
36do [after thirty-nine days][]. I think I'll \
37feel like [Inigo Montoya][], who'd been in the line \
38of revenging for so long, he didn't know what to \
39do with the rest of his life), and he deigned \
40to be polite, but I could tell the task \
41was hard for him. He told me finally that I
42
43had made a noble effort, but that ultimately I \
44failed. [So my question][]: when will \
45I be a decent sestina writer? For this is my task. \
46Maybe if I just keep cranking out line after line \
47I'll finally figure it out. Maybe one more day \
48or another week will do it, or maybe I'll need two,
49
50or maybe it'll never happen. Maybe a sestina's too \
51involved, too much [weaving][] of words too fine, and I \
52will never write a good one, even on my best day, \
53even if I employ all my skill and all my will. \
54I'm not used to writing poems with thirty-nine lines, \
55that must be the problem, must be why this task
56
57is Herculean. He only had to finish twelve tasks, \
58and I have one less one thousand, five hundred twenty-two, \
59and it's nothing but complaining lines \
60about [how hard it is to be a person][]. I \
61am getting sick of myself with these poems, and will \
62soon be loathe to get out of bed every day.
63
64But I tasked myself with this, which may be the worst I \
65ever do to myself. I thought a poem NaNoWriMo would \
66be fun, would line my resume, give me something I could publish someday.
67
68[after thirty-nine days]: http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/11-24.htm
69[Inigo Montoya]: death-zone.html
70[So my question]: question.html
71[weaving]: tapestry.html
72[how hard it is to be a person]: deathstrumpet.html