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author | Case Duckworth | 2015-02-27 10:53:56 -0700 |
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committer | Case Duckworth | 2015-02-27 10:53:56 -0700 |
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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Last bastion | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: Stark Raving | ||
7 | css: stark | ||
8 | order: 10 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: AMBER alert | ||
11 | link: amber-alert | ||
12 | - title: 1. Initial conditions | ||
13 | link: initial-conditions | ||
14 | prev: | ||
15 | - title: 4. The Sixteenth Chapel | ||
16 | link: sixteenth-chapel.txt | ||
17 | - title: Boy on the bus | ||
18 | link: boy_bus | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle \ | ||
22 | down the cold and darkened highways of the heart. \ | ||
23 | They are the last personality left. They are the meek \ | ||
24 | who inherited the heart, what was left of it. \ | ||
25 | Without food to cook in new or exciting ways \ | ||
26 | nor audience to gasp and cackle, the chefs \ | ||
27 | of the heart quietly waste away while staring \ | ||
28 | doe-eyed into now-empty Safeway windows \ | ||
29 | checking under the dusty produce shelves \ | ||
30 | for something they pray the rats haven't found yet. | ||
31 | |||
32 | Years ago, the economy of the heart boomed \ | ||
33 | and there was food everywhere. Produce \ | ||
34 | piled high in pyramids of devotion, meat in \ | ||
35 | gilded glass cases opulent under fluorescence, \ | ||
36 | dairy which ran like the mythical river toward \ | ||
37 | cereals hot and cold. Under it all, thrumming \ | ||
38 | like great stone wheels on sand under a hot sun \ | ||
39 | near a river where reeds sang in the wind \ | ||
40 | the heart produced and gave reward for hard labor. | ||
41 | |||
42 | No one knows when it all ended. No one can say \ | ||
43 | if it was the heart that dried up or the heart's supply. \ | ||
44 | Either way, food of the heart became scarcer and scarcer. \ | ||
45 | People began dying, not of starvation \ | ||
46 | but of a certain facial expression that could only \ | ||
47 | be described as desperation. Now \ | ||
48 | all that are left are the celebrity chefs, last bastion \ | ||
49 | of a once mighty empire of the heart \ | ||
50 | are reduced to husks blown dry by wind. | ||