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+title: The Death Zone
+genre: verse
+
+epigraph:
+    content: And my life became death.
+    attrib: Philip Gould
+    link: TODO
+
+project:
+    title: Stark Raving
+    css: stark
+    order: 7
+    next:
+    - title: The Big Dipper
+      link: big-dipper
+    - title: Exasperated
+      link: exasperated
+    prev:
+    - title: Exasperated
+      link: exasperated
+    - title: AMBER alert
+      link: amber-alert
+...
+
+![TODO]
+
+When I think of death I think \
+of Peter Falk in _The Princess Bride_ patting \
+his pockets as he leaves the room
+
+Life is a series of doors or so \
+they say but I ask them this \
+where does that last door lead?
+
+For Falk maybe it leads backstage \
+a black-walled catered affair with stage \
+lights slowly baking stale muffins
+
+Sweaty cheese leaking onto dried-out \
+grapes a chocolate fountain clogged \
+by some errant strawberry crown
+
+but this is not where it leads for you or \
+for me that door opens onto darkness marked \
+only by a trellis or the lid of a casket
+
+the door of the earth's womb opening \
+finally to accept us and with us the dirt \
+not to grow more strawberries for Falk
+
+but to pad his feet as he walks overhead \
+to visit someone he certainly cares about \
+but whose name is lost to posterity.