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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
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2title: Statements
3id: statements-frag
4subtitle: a fragment
5genre: prose
6
7project:
8 title: Autocento of the breakfast table
9 class: autocento
10...
11
12I. Eli {#eli}
13------
14
15"Can one truly describe an emotion?" Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie.
16He was in the bathroom, & had taken the walkie-talkie in with him absent-mindedly.
17I could hear sounds of his piss hitting the toilet water.
18
19"I can hear you peeing," I said.
20He didn't answer so I said in apology, "It's okay. Humans are sexually dimorphic."
21I was sitting on my blue baby blanket texting Jon, who was funny and amicable over the phone.
22He made a three-message joke about greedy lawyers and I would have been laughing if not for my embarrassment toward Eli.
23He finally came out of the bathroom and kept his eyes straight ahead, toward the wall calendar and not at me, as he passed through the family room into his bedroom, were he shut the door quietly.
24Presently I heard some muffled noise as he turned on his iPod.
25I guessed he didn't feel like talking so I stayed on my blanket watching the _Price is Right_ and texting Jon.
26
27Drew Carrey was doing his wrap-up speech on TV when Eli finally came out of his room, red puffy streaks covering his face.
28His eyes and nose were red too, which was almost festive against the pale green and white of the [wallpaper][].
29I had been laughing at the goofy costumes on the _Price is Right_ and the jokes Jon was texting me, but when Eli came out of the room I stopped and just looked at him as well as I could.
30He was staring at my right shoulder as he said, "Go home now."
31
32"What?"
33
34"[I said go home now][].
35I don't want you here anymore, because I just remembered I have someone coming over and I have to clean."
36
37"Look, Eli, I'm sorry---"
38
39"It doesn't have anything to do with you, I swear.
40Just go, okay? [Go home now][]."
41
42I got up and tried to give him a hug but he withdrew from me sharply.
43So I walked around the coffee table as he sat down, not looking at me anymore, and stared at the blank TV.
44The blanket I had been sitting in was crumpled next to him like a dead bird.
45I opened my mouth but thought better of talking, and closed the door behind me slowly.
46
47II. Dimorphic {#dimorphic .verse}
48-------------
49
50[Oranges][]. Poison. A compromise \
51between Mary & [Judas][]. Blue \
52baby blankets swaddling greedy lawyers.
53
54Can one truly describe an emotion? \
55I cut my ankle with a razor blade. \
56I can only go one at a time. Humanity \
57has a seething mass of eels \
58for a brain, mating in the water so forcefully \
59that it could [drown you under the moon][].
60
61III. Declaration of Poetry {#declaration-of-poetry}
62--------------------------
63
64You have to go one line at a time, and you have to start on the first or second line.
65
66[Judas]: spittle.html
67[wallpaper]: wallpaper.html
68[I said go home now]: lappel-du-vide.html
69[Go home now]: riptide_memory.html
70[Oranges]: seasonal-affective-disorder.html
71[drown you under the moon]: moon-drowning.html