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| 37 | <section class="content verse"> | 37 | <section class="content verse"> |
| 38 | <p><span class="line">Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle</span><span class="line">down the cold and darkened highways of the heart.</span><span class="line">They are the last personality left. They are [the meek</span><span class="line">who inherited the heart]<a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-5.htm">meek</a>, what was left of it.</span></p> | 38 | <p><span class="line">Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle</span><span class="line">down the cold and darkened highways of the heart.</span><span class="line">They are the last personality left. They are the meek</span><span class="line"><a href="http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-5.htm">who inherited the heart</a>, what was left of it.</span></p> |
| 39 | <p><span class="line">Without food to cook in new or exciting ways</span><span class="line">nor audience to gasp and cackle, the chefs</span><span class="line">of the heart quietly waste away while staring</span><span class="line">doe-eyed into now-empty Safeway windows</span><span class="line">checking under the dusty produce shelves</span><span class="line">for something they pray the <a href="in-bed.html">rats</a> haven’t found yet.</span></p> | 39 | <p><span class="line">Without food to cook in new or exciting ways</span><span class="line">nor audience to gasp and cackle, the chefs</span><span class="line">of the heart quietly waste away while staring</span><span class="line">doe-eyed into now-empty Safeway windows</span><span class="line">checking under the dusty produce shelves</span><span class="line">for something they pray the <a href="in-bed.html">rats</a> haven’t found yet.</span></p> |
| 40 | <p><span class="line">Years ago, the economy of the heart boomed</span><span class="line">and there was food everywhere. Produce</span><span class="line">piled high in pyramids of devotion, meat in</span><span class="line">gilded glass cases opulent under fluorescence,</span><span class="line">dairy which ran like the <a href="music-433.html">mythical river</a> toward</span><span class="line">cereals hot and cold. Under it all, thrumming</span><span class="line">like great stone wheels on sand under a hot sun</span><span class="line">near a river where reeds sang in the wind</span><span class="line">the heart produced and gave reward for hard labor.</span></p> | 40 | <p><span class="line">Years ago, the economy of the heart boomed</span><span class="line">and there was food everywhere. Produce</span><span class="line">piled high in pyramids of devotion, meat in</span><span class="line">gilded glass cases opulent under fluorescence,</span><span class="line">dairy which ran like the <a href="music-433.html">mythical river</a> toward</span><span class="line">cereals hot and cold. Under it all, thrumming</span><span class="line">like great stone wheels on sand under a hot sun</span><span class="line">near a river where reeds sang in the wind</span><span class="line">the heart produced and gave reward for hard labor.</span></p> |
| 41 | <p><span class="line">No one knows when it all ended. No one can say</span><span class="line">if it was the heart that dried up or the heart’s supply.</span><span class="line">Either way, food of the heart became scarcer and scarcer.</span><span class="line">People began dying, not of starvation</span><span class="line">but of a certain facial expression that could only</span><span class="line">be described as desperation. Now</span><span class="line">all that are left are the celebrity chefs, last bastion</span><span class="line">of a once mighty empire of the [heart</span><span class="line">are reduced to husks]<a href="sense-of-it.html">heart</a> blown dry by wind.</span></p> | 41 | <p><span class="line">No one knows when it all ended. No one can say</span><span class="line">if it was the heart that dried up or the heart’s supply.</span><span class="line">Either way, food of the heart became scarcer and scarcer.</span><span class="line">People began dying, not of starvation</span><span class="line">but of a certain facial expression that could only</span><span class="line">be described as desperation. Now</span><span class="line">all that are left are the celebrity chefs, last bastion</span><span class="line">of a once mighty empire of the heart</span><span class="line"><a href="sense-of-it.html">are reduced to husks</a> blown dry by wind.</span></p> |
| 42 | </section> | 42 | </section> |
| 43 | </article> | 43 | </article> |
| 44 | <nav> | 44 | <nav> |
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| 36 | 36 | ||
| 37 | <section class="content verse"> | 37 | <section class="content verse"> |
| 38 | <p><span class="line">Swans fly overhead singing goodbye</span><span class="line">to we <a href="howithappened.html">walkers of the earth</a>. You point</span><span class="line">to them in formation, you tell me</span><span class="line">you are not you. [You are the air the swans</span><span class="line">walk on]<a href="swansong-alt.html">alt</a> as they journey like pilgrims</span><span class="line">to a temple in the south. A curtain</span><span class="line">there separates me from you, swans</span><span class="line">from the air they fly through. I say</span><span class="line">that you are no longer the temple,</span><span class="line">that you have been through fire</span><span class="line">and are now less than ash. You are</span><span class="line">a <a href="moongone.html">mirror</a> of me, the <a href="deathstrumpet.html">air without a swan</a>.</span><span class="line">Together, we are each other. You</span><span class="line">and I have both nothing and everything</span><span class="line">at once. We own the world and nothing in it.</span></p> | 38 | <p><span class="line">Swans fly overhead singing goodbye</span><span class="line">to we <a href="howithappened.html">walkers of the earth</a>. You point</span><span class="line">to them in formation, you tell me</span><span class="line">you are not you. <a href="swansong-alt.html">You are the air the swans</a></span><span class="line">walk on as they journey like pilgrims</span><span class="line">to a temple in the south. A curtain</span><span class="line">there separates me from you, swans</span><span class="line">from the air they fly through. I say</span><span class="line">that you are no longer the temple,</span><span class="line">that you have been through fire</span><span class="line">and are now less than ash. You are</span><span class="line">a <a href="moongone.html">mirror</a> of me, the <a href="deathstrumpet.html">air without a swan</a>.</span><span class="line">Together, we are each other. You</span><span class="line">and I have both nothing and everything</span><span class="line">at once. We own the world and nothing in it.</span></p> |
| 39 | </section> | 39 | </section> |
| 40 | </article> | 40 | </article> |
| 41 | <nav> | 41 | <nav> |
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| 23 | 23 | ||
| 24 | | Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle | 24 | | Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle |
| 25 | | down the cold and darkened highways of the heart. | 25 | | down the cold and darkened highways of the heart. |
| 26 | | They are the last personality left. They are [the meek | 26 | | They are the last personality left. They are the meek |
| 27 | | who inherited the heart][meek], what was left of it.\ | 27 | | [who inherited the heart][meek], what was left of it.\ |
| 28 | 28 | ||
| 29 | | Without food to cook in new or exciting ways | 29 | | Without food to cook in new or exciting ways |
| 30 | | nor audience to gasp and cackle, the chefs | 30 | | nor audience to gasp and cackle, the chefs |
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| 50 | | but of a certain facial expression that could only | 50 | | but of a certain facial expression that could only |
| 51 | | be described as desperation. Now | 51 | | be described as desperation. Now |
| 52 | | all that are left are the celebrity chefs, last bastion | 52 | | all that are left are the celebrity chefs, last bastion |
| 53 | | of a once mighty empire of the [heart | 53 | | of a once mighty empire of the heart |
| 54 | | are reduced to husks][heart] blown dry by wind. | 54 | | [are reduced to husks][heart] blown dry by wind. |
| 55 | 55 | ||
| 56 | [meek]: http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-5.htm | 56 | [meek]: http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-5.htm |
| 57 | [rats]: in-bed.html | 57 | [rats]: in-bed.html |
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| 20 | | Swans fly overhead singing goodbye | 20 | | Swans fly overhead singing goodbye |
| 21 | | to we [walkers of the earth][ithappened]. You point | 21 | | to we [walkers of the earth][ithappened]. You point |
| 22 | | to them in formation, you tell me | 22 | | to them in formation, you tell me |
| 23 | | you are not you. [You are the air the swans | 23 | | you are not you. [You are the air the swans][alt] |
| 24 | | walk on][alt] as they journey like pilgrims | 24 | | walk on as they journey like pilgrims |
| 25 | | to a temple in the south. A curtain | 25 | | to a temple in the south. A curtain |
| 26 | | there separates me from you, swans | 26 | | there separates me from you, swans |
| 27 | | from the air they fly through. I say | 27 | | from the air they fly through. I say |