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+title: 'The Boar'
+project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
+...
+
+Now the ticking clocks scare me. \
+The empty rooms, clock towers, belfries; \
+I am terrified by them all.
+
+I really used to enjoy going to church, \
+singing in the choir, listening to the sermon. \
+Now the chairs squeal like dying pigs---
+
+It was the boar that did it. \
+Fifteen feet from me that night \
+in the grass, rooting for God \
+knows what, finding me instead.
+
+I ran, not knowing where or how, \
+not looking for his pursuit of me. \
+I ran to God's front door, found \
+it locked, found the house empty
+
+with a note saying, "Condemned."