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43 <section class="content prose"><p><a href="deadman.html">A dead man finds his way into our hearts</a> <a href="movingsideways.html">a dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk.</a> <a href="building.html">ART and CRAFT are only the inside and outside of the same building.</a> <a href="angeltoabraham.html">Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear:</a> <a href="big-dipper.html">after searching for days or even months</a> <a href="and.html">and you were there in the start of it all</a> <a href="tapestry.html">apparently typewriters need ribbon.</a> <a href="ex-machina.html">Bottom of the drink: they had</a> <a href="paul.html">contents of the shed</a>.</p>
44<p><a href="statements-frag.html">“Can one truly describe an emotion?” Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie.</a> <a href="about_author.html">Case Duckworth is the cowardly but lovable Great Dane who solves mysteries on TV.</a> <a href="last-bastion.html">Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle</a>. <a href="question.html">“Do you have to say your thoughts out loud for them to mean anything” Paul asked Jill on his first coffee break at work.</a> <a href="planks.html">EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME</a>. <a href="swear.html">EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME</a>. <a href="love-as-god.html">God is love, they say, but there is</a> <a href="window.html">hymn 386: jokes</a>.</p>
45<p><a href="shipwright.html">He builds a ship as if it were the last thing</a> <a href="sapling.html">he chopped down: a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch.</a> <a href="toothpaste.html">He couldn’t find a shirt to go to work in.</a> <a href="wallpaper.html">He didn’t go back into the shed for a long time.</a> <a href="deathstrumpet.html">He didn’t have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing,</a> <a href="underwear.html">he dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.</a> <a href="squirrel.html">He is so full in himself:</a> <a href="hands.html">He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing.</a> <a href="ouroboros_memory.html">He said at the beginning, “It’s like rolling yarn into a too-small ball.</a>&quot; <a href="writing.html">He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping.</a> <a href="leaf.html">He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack.</a> <a href="stump.html">He walked into the woods for the first time in months.</a> <a href="about-the-author.html">He was born on a few separate occasions: green traffic lights at night</a>. <a href="cereal.html">He woke up after eleven and didn’t go outside all day, not even to his Writing Shack.</a> <a href="yellow.html">He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break.</a> <a href="joke.html">He wrote JOKES on the top of a page in his notebook.</a></p>
46<p><a href="phone.html">“Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me” the voice on the phone was a woman’s.</a> <a href="leg.html">His first chair was a stool.</a> <a href="hardware.html">His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday.</a> <a href="fire.html">His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown.</a></p>
47<p><a href="words-meaning.html">“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, / and frightening that it does not quite,” Jack Gilbert opens his poem “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart.”</a> <a href="on-genre-dimension.html">How does one describe a poem?</a> <a href="i-am.html">I am a great pillar of white smoke.</a> <a href="walking-in-the-rain.html">I can walk through the rain, that rare occurrence</a>. <a href="exasperated.html">I didn’t write this sestina yesterday.</a> <a href="snow.html">I don’t care if they burn he wrote on his last blank notecard.</a> <a href="in-bed.html">I hear the rats run</a>. <a href="roughgloves.html">I lost my hands &amp; knit replacement ones</a>. <a href="plant.html">I need a plant. I need a thing</a>. <a href="sense-of-it.html">I only write poems on the bus anymore.</a> <a href="epigraph.html">I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.</a> <a href="weplayedthosegamestoo.html">I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game</a> <a href="onformalpoetry.html">I think that I could write formal poems</a>; <a href="i-think-its-you.html">I thought I saw you walking</a>. <a href="dollywood.html">I turned off the TV as soon as the end credits began.</a></p>
48<p><a href="i-want-to-say.html">I want to say I take it all back</a>, <a href="i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html">I wanted to tell you something in order to</a>— <a href="howithappened.html">I was away on vacation when I heard—</a> <a href="time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html">I wish I’d kissed you when I had the chance.</a> <a href="poetry-time.html">I’m writing this now because I have to.</a> <a href="sixteenth-chapel.html">If Justin Bieber isn’t going for the sixteenth</a>— <a href="listen.html">if you swallow hard enough</a>— <a href="philosophy.html">importance is important.</a> <a href="riptide_memory.html">Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.</a></p>
49<p><a href="father.html">“Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things” he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed.</a> <a href="dream.html">It had gotten cold.</a> <a href="stayed-on-the-bus.html">It was a gamble</a>; <a href="telemarketer.html">it was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the street only if Larry craned his neck to almost vertical.</a> <a href="hymnal.html">It’s all jokes Paul wrote in what he was now calling his Hymnal.</a> <a href="january.html">January.</a></p>
50<p>“<a href="call-me-aural-pleasure.html">Like 40 as I challenge anyone to come too!</a> <a href="found-typewriter-poem.html">Look, I say—look here—</a> <a href="amber-alert.html">Lost things have a way of staying lost.</a>” <a href="cold-wind.html">Man of autumn, cold wind,</a> <a href="last-passenger.html">memory works strangely, spooling its thread</a>.</p>
51<p><a href="peaches.html">“My anger is like a peach,” he said.</a> “<a href="spittle.html">My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought.</a>” <a href="the-night-we-met.html">My head is full of fire, my tongue swollen,</a> <a href="nothing-is-ever-over.html">nothing is ever over; nothing</a>— <a href="proverbs.html">nothing matters; everything is sacred.</a> <a href="boar.html">Now the ticking clocks scare me.</a></p>
52<p><a href="prelude.html">Of course, there is a God.</a>— <a href="purpose-dogs.html">Okay, so there either is or isn’t a God.</a> <a href="seasonal-affective-disorder.html">On your desk I set a tangerine:</a> <a href="notes.html">Paul began typing on notecards.</a></p>
53<p><a href="toilet.html">Paul only did his reading on the toilet.</a> <a href="axe.html">Paul took his axe and went out into the woods to chop trees.</a> <a href="art.html">Paul was writing in his diary about art.</a></p>
54<p><a href="reports.html">“Paul, you can’t turn in your reports on four-by-six notecards” Jill told him after he handed her his reports, typed carefully on twelve four-by-six notecards.</a> <a href="stagnant.html">“Riding the bus to work is a good way to think or to read” Paul thought to himself on the bus ride to work.</a></p>
55<p><a href="elegyforanalternateself.html">Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined</a>: <a href="music-433.html">silence lies underneath us all in the same way</a> <a href="apollo11.html">it’s the fucking moon. Big deal. As if</a> <a href="creation-myth.html">two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings</a> <a href="real-writer.html">feel as though I am not a real writer.</a> <a href="words-irritable-reaching.html">Somewhere I remember reading advice for beginning writers not to show their work to anyone, at least that in the early stages.</a></p>
56<p><a href="swansong.html">Swans fly overhead singing goodbye</a>: <a href="man.html">THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES</a>. <a href="treatise.html">TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS “SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE”</a>: <a href="likingthings.html">the definition of happiness is <em>doing stuff that you really like</em>.</a> <a href="table_contents.html">The look she gave me (Half-hours in heaven are three times that in hell)</a>. <a href="moon-drowning.html">The moon is drowning the stars it pushes them</a>— <a href="moongone.html">The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. Looking at the night sky now</a>, <a href="mountain.html">the other side of this mountain</a>: <a href="problems.html">the problem with people is this: we cannot be happy.</a> <a href="worse-looking-over.html">The radio is screaming the man</a>— <a href="serengeti.html">the self is a serengeti</a>— <a href="todaniel.html">there are more modern ideals of beauty</a>— <a href="what-we-are-made-of.html">there is a cave just outside of Flagstaff made from ancient lava flows.</a></p>
57<p><a href="initial-conditions.html">There is a theory which states the Universe</a>, <a href="howtoread.html">this book, is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be lived.</a> <a href="swansong-alt.html">This poem is dry like chapped lips.</a> <a href="finding-the-lion.html">Tonight, as I look up, the stars</a>, <a href="the-sea_the-beach.html">waiting for a reading to start</a>, <a href="lovesong.html">walking along in the dark, is a good way to begin a song.</a></p>
58<p><a href="lappel-du-vide.html">Walter rides the bus into work on Wednesday morning when he realizes, with the force and surprise of a rogue current, that he is in the home-for-death phase of life.</a> <a href="theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html">We found your shirt deep in the dark water</a>— <a href="options.html">what did he do when he was in the woods?</a></p>
59<p><a href="shed.html">“What do you do all day in that shed out back” his mother asked one night while they ate dinner in front of the TV.</a></p>
60<p><a href="manifesto_poetics.html">What is a poem?</a> <a href="arspoetica.html">What is poetry?</a> <a href="largest-asteroid.html">What secrets does it hold?</a> <a href="death-zone.html">When I think of death I think</a>, <a href="ronaldmcdonald.html">when Ronald McDonald takes off his striped shirt,</a> <a href="punch.html">when he finally got back to work, he was surprised they threw him a party.</a> <a href="boy_bus.html">When he said Bible I heard his southern accent</a>: <a href="100-lines.html">whenever you call me friend</a> <a href="x-ray.html">while chopping a tree in the woods with his hatchet (a Christmas gift from his mother) a bird he’d never heard before cried out.</a> <a href="no-nothing.html">While swimming in the river</a>: <a href="early.html">YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked.</a></p>
61<p><a href="feedingtheraven.html">You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life.</a> <a href="hard-game.html">You think building Hoggle’s a hard game?</a> <a href="when-im-sorry-i.html">Your casserole dish takes the longest:</a> <a href="something-simple.html">in mammals the ratio between bladder size</a> <a href="collage-instrument.html">has been a part of the Unix toolset since the late 70s.</a></p></section>
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1autocento
2of
3the
4breakfast
5table
6index
7of
8first
9lines
10a
11dead
12man
13finds
14his
15way
16into
17our
18hearts
19a
20dog
21moving
22sideways
23is
24sick
25a
26man
27moving
28sideways
29is
30drunk
31art
32and
33craft
34are
35only
36the
37inside
38and
39outside
40of
41the
42same
43building
44abraham
45abraham
46you
47are
48old
49and
50cannot
51hear
52after
53searching
54for
55days
56or
57even
58months
59and
60you
61were
62there
63in
64the
65start
66of
67it
68all
69apparently
70typewriters
71need
72ribbon
73bottom
74of
75the
76drink
77they
78had
79contents
80of
81the
82shed
83can
84one
85truly
86describe
87an
88emotion
89eli
90asked
91me
92over
93the
94walkie-talkie
95case
96duckworth
97is
98the
99cowardly
100but
101lovable
102great
103dane
104who
105solves
106mysteries
107on
108tv
109dimly
110remembered
111celebrity
112chefs
113shuffle
114do
115you
116have
117to
118say
119your
120thoughts
121out
122loud
123for
124them
125to
126mean
127anything
128paul
129asked
130jill
131on
132his
133first
134coffee
135break
136at
137work
138everything
139changes
140or
141everything
142stays
143the
144same
145everything
146changes
147or
148everything
149stays
150the
151same
152god
153is
154love
155they
156say
157but
158there
159is
160hymn
161386
162jokes
163he
164builds
165a
166ship
167as
168if
169it
170were
171the
172last
173thing
174he
175chopped
176down
177a
178sapling
179pine
180tree
181and
182looked
183at
184his
185watch
186he
187couldn't
188find
189a
190shirt
191to
192go
193to
194work
195in
196he
197didn't
198go
199back
200into
201the
202shed
203for
204a
205long
206time
207he
208didn't
209have
210any
211polish
212so
213he
214spit-shined
215the
216whole
217thing
218he
219dropped
220the
221penny
222in
223the
224dryer
225turned
226it
227on
228and
229turned
230around
231he
232is
233so
234full
235in
236himself
237he
238looked
239down
240at
241his
242hands
243idly
244while
245he
246was
247typing
248he
249said
250at
251the
252beginning
253it's
254like
255rolling
256yarn
257into
258a
259too-small
260ball
261he
262sat
263down
264at
265his
266writing
267desk
268and
269removed
270his
271new
272pen
273from
274its
275plastic
276wrapping
277he
278shrugged
279the
280wood
281off
282his
283shoulder
284letting
285it
286fall
287with
288a
289clog
290onto
291the
292earth
293floor
294of
295his
296writing
297shack
298he
299walked
300into
301the
302woods
303for
304the
305first
306time
307in
308months
309he
310was
311born
312on
313a
314few
315separate
316occasions
317green
318traffic
319lights
320at
321night
322he
323woke
324up
325after
326eleven
327and
328didn't
329go
330outside
331all
332day
333not
334even
335to
336his
337writing
338shack
339he
340would
341enter
342data
343at
344work
345for
346fifty
347minutes
348and
349then
350go
351on
352break
353he
354wrote
355jokes
356on
357the
358top
359of
360a
361page
362in
363his
364notebook
365hello
366paul
367this
368is
369jill
370jill
371noe
372remember
373me
374the
375voice
376on
377the
378phone
379was
380a
381woman's
382his
383first
384chair
385was
386a
387stool
388his
389mother
390drove
391him
392to
393the
394hardware
395store
396on
397a
398tuesday
399his
400mother
401ran
402out
403of
404the
405house
406in
407her
408nightgown
409how
410astonishing
411it
412is
413that
414language
415can
416almost
417mean
418/
419and
420frightening
421that
422it
423does
424not
425quite
426jack
427gilbert
428opens
429his
430poem
431the
432forgotten
433dialect
434of
435the
436heart
437how
438does
439one
440describe
441a
442poem
443i
444am
445a
446great
447pillar
448of
449white
450smoke
451i
452can
453walk
454through
455the
456rain
457that
458rare
459occurrence
460i
461didn't
462write
463this
464sestina
465yesterday
466i
467don't
468care
469if
470they
471burn
472he
473wrote
474on
475his
476last
477blank
478notecard
479i
480hear
481the
482rats
483run
484i
485lost
486my
487hands
488&
489knit
490replacement
491ones
492i
493need
494a
495plant
496i
497need
498a
499thing
500i
501only
502write
503poems
504on
505the
506bus
507anymore
508i
509saw
510my
511life
512branching
513out
514before
515me
516like
517the
518green
519fig
520tree
521in
522the
523story
524i
525saw
526two
527eskimo
528girls
529playing
530a
531game
532i
533think
534that
535i
536could
537write
538formal
539poems
540i
541thought
542i
543saw
544you
545walking
546i
547turned
548off
549the
550tv
551as
552soon
553as
554the
555end
556credits
557began
558i
559want
560to
561say
562i
563take
564it
565all
566back
567i
568wanted
569to
570tell
571you
572something
573in
574order
575to
576i
577was
578away
579on
580vacation
581when
582i
583heard
584i
585wish
586i'd
587kissed
588you
589when
590i
591had
592the
593chance
594i'm
595writing
596this
597now
598because
599i
600have
601to
602if
603justin
604bieber
605isn't
606going
607for
608the
609sixteenth
610if
611you
612swallow
613hard
614enough
615importance
616is
617important
618inside
619of
620my
621memory
622the
623poem
624is
625another
626memory
627is
628man
629the
630natural
631thing
632that
633makes
634unnatural
635things
636he
637thought
638to
639himself
640as
641he
642looked
643out
644the
645kitchen
646window
647at
648the
649shed
650it
651had
652gotten
653cold
654it
655was
656a
657gamble
658it
659was
660one
661of
662those
663nameless
664gray
665buildings
666that
667could
668be
669seen
670from
671the
672street
673only
674if
675larry
676craned
677his
678neck
679to
680almost
681vertical
682it's
683all
684jokes
685paul
686wrote
687in
688what
689he
690was
691now
692calling
693his
694hymnal
695january
696like
69740
698as
699i
700challenge
701anyone
702to
703come
704too
705look
706i
707say
708look
709here
710lost
711things
712have
713a
714way
715of
716staying
717lost
718man
719of
720autumn
721cold
722wind
723memory
724works
725strangely
726spooling
727its
728thread
729my
730anger
731is
732like
733a
734peach
735he
736said
737my
738body
739is
740attached
741to
742your
743body
744by
745a
746thin
747spittle
748of
749thought
750my
751head
752is
753full
754of
755fire
756my
757tongue
758swollen
759nothing
760is
761ever
762over
763nothing
764nothing
765matters
766everything
767is
768sacred
769now
770the
771ticking
772clocks
773scare
774me
775of
776course
777there
778is
779a
780god
781okay
782so
783there
784either
785is
786or
787isn't
788a
789god
790on
791your
792desk
793i
794set
795a
796tangerine
797paul
798began
799typing
800on
801notecards
802paul
803only
804did
805his
806reading
807on
808the
809toilet
810paul
811took
812his
813axe
814and
815went
816out
817into
818the
819woods
820to
821chop
822trees
823paul
824was
825writing
826in
827his
828diary
829about
830art
831paul
832you
833can't
834turn
835in
836your
837reports
838on
839four-by-six
840notecards
841jill
842told
843him
844after
845he
846handed
847her
848his
849reports
850typed
851carefully
852on
853twelve
854four-by-six
855notecards
856riding
857the
858bus
859to
860work
861is
862a
863good
864way
865to
866think
867or
868to
869read
870paul
871thought
872to
873himself
874on
875the
876bus
877ride
878to
879work
880say
881there
882are
883no
884words
885say
886that
887we
888are
889conjoined
890silence
891lies
892underneath
893us
894all
895in
896the
897same
898way
899it's
900the
901fucking
902moon
903big
904deal
905as
906if
907two
908hyperintelligent
909pandimensional
910beings
911feel
912as
913though
914i
915am
916not
917a
918real
919writer
920somewhere
921i
922remember
923reading
924advice
925for
926beginning
927writers
928not
929to
930show
931their
932work
933to
934anyone
935at
936least
937that
938in
939the
940early
941stages
942swans
943fly
944overhead
945singing
946goodbye
947this
948man
949refused
950to
951open
952his
953eyes
954treatise
955on
956literature
957as
958spooky
959action
960at
961a
962distance
963the
964definition
965of
966happiness
967is
968doing
969stuff
970that
971you
972really
973like
974the
975look
976she
977gave
978me
979half-hours
980in
981heaven
982are
983three
984times
985that
986in
987hell
988the
989moon
990is
991drowning
992the
993stars
994it
995pushes
996them
997the
998moon
999is
1000gone
1001and
1002in
1003its
1004place
1005a
1006mirror
1007looking
1008at
1009the
1010night
1011sky
1012now
1013the
1014other
1015side
1016of
1017this
1018mountain
1019the
1020problem
1021with
1022people
1023is
1024this
1025we
1026cannot
1027be
1028happy
1029the
1030radio
1031is
1032screaming
1033the
1034man
1035the
1036self
1037is
1038a
1039serengeti
1040there
1041are
1042more
1043modern
1044ideals
1045of
1046beauty
1047there
1048is
1049a
1050cave
1051just
1052outside
1053of
1054flagstaff
1055made
1056from
1057ancient
1058lava
1059flows
1060there
1061is
1062a
1063theory
1064which
1065states
1066the
1067universe
1068this
1069book
1070is
1071an
1072exploration
1073of
1074life
1075of
1076all
1077possible
1078lives
1079that
1080could
1081be
1082lived
1083this
1084poem
1085is
1086dry
1087like
1088chapped
1089lips
1090tonight
1091as
1092i
1093look
1094up
1095the
1096stars
1097waiting
1098for
1099a
1100reading
1101to
1102start
1103walking
1104along
1105in
1106the
1107dark
1108is
1109a
1110good
1111way
1112to
1113begin
1114a
1115song
1116walter
1117rides
1118the
1119bus
1120into
1121work
1122on
1123wednesday
1124morning
1125when
1126he
1127realizes
1128with
1129the
1130force
1131and
1132surprise
1133of
1134a
1135rogue
1136current
1137that
1138he
1139is
1140in
1141the
1142home-for-death
1143phase
1144of
1145life
1146we
1147found
1148your
1149shirt
1150deep
1151in
1152the
1153dark
1154water
1155what
1156did
1157he
1158do
1159when
1160he
1161was
1162in
1163the
1164woods
1165what
1166do
1167you
1168do
1169all
1170day
1171in
1172that
1173shed
1174out
1175back
1176his
1177mother
1178asked
1179one
1180night
1181while
1182they
1183ate
1184dinner
1185in
1186front
1187of
1188the
1189tv
1190what
1191is
1192a
1193poem
1194what
1195is
1196poetry
1197what
1198secrets
1199does
1200it
1201hold
1202when
1203i
1204think
1205of
1206death
1207i
1208think
1209when
1210ronald
1211mcdonald
1212takes
1213off
1214his
1215striped
1216shirt
1217when
1218he
1219finally
1220got
1221back
1222to
1223work
1224he
1225was
1226surprised
1227they
1228threw
1229him
1230a
1231party
1232when
1233he
1234said
1235bible
1236i
1237heard
1238his
1239southern
1240accent
1241whenever
1242you
1243call
1244me
1245friend
1246while
1247chopping
1248a
1249tree
1250in
1251the
1252woods
1253with
1254his
1255hatchet
1256a
1257christmas
1258gift
1259from
1260his
1261mother
1262a
1263bird
1264he'd
1265never
1266heard
1267before
1268cried
1269out
1270while
1271swimming
1272in
1273the
1274river
1275you
1276cannot
1277discover
1278art
1279art
1280must
1281be
1282created
1283he
1284sat
1285on
1286the
1287couch
1288at
1289home
1290while
1291his
1292mother
1293watched
1294tv
1295and
1296smoked
1297you
1298never
1299can
1300tell
1301just
1302when
1303charlie
1304sheen
1305will
1306enter
1307your
1308life
1309you
1310think
1311building
1312hoggle's
1313a
1314hard
1315game
1316your
1317casserole
1318dish
1319takes
1320the
1321longest
1322in
1323mammals
1324the
1325ratio
1326between
1327bladder
1328size
1329has
1330been
1331a
1332part
1333of
1334the
1335unix
1336toolset
1337since
1338the
1339late
134070s
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2title: Autocento of the breakfast table
3subtitle: index of first lines
4genre: prose
5
6project:
7 title: Autocento of the breakfast table
8 css: autocento
9...
10
11[A dead man finds his way into our hearts](deadman.html)
12[a dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk.](movingsideways.html)
13[ART and CRAFT are only the inside and outside of the same building.](building.html)
14[Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear:](angeltoabraham.html)
15[after searching for days or even months](big-dipper.html)
16[and you were there in the start of it all](and.html)
17[apparently typewriters need ribbon.](tapestry.html)
18[Bottom of the drink: they had](ex-machina.html)
19[contents of the shed](paul.html).
20
21["Can one truly describe an emotion?" Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie.](statements-frag.html)
22[Case Duckworth is the cowardly but lovable Great Dane who solves mysteries on TV.](about_author.html)
23[Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle](last-bastion.html).
24["Do you have to say your thoughts out loud for them to mean anything" Paul asked Jill on his first coffee break at work.](question.html)
25[EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](planks.html).
26[EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](swear.html).
27[God is love, they say, but there is](love-as-god.html)
28[hymn 386: jokes](window.html).
29
30[He builds a ship as if it were the last thing](shipwright.html)
31[he chopped down: a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch.](sapling.html)
32[He couldn't find a shirt to go to work in.](toothpaste.html)
33[He didn't go back into the shed for a long time.](wallpaper.html)
34[He didn't have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing,](deathstrumpet.html)
35[he dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.](underwear.html)
36[He is so full in himself:](squirrel.html)
37[He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing.](hands.html)
38[He said at the beginning, "It's like rolling yarn into a too-small ball.](ouroboros_memory.html)"
39[He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping.](writing.html)
40[He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack.](leaf.html)
41[He walked into the woods for the first time in months.](stump.html)
42[He was born on a few separate occasions: green traffic lights at night](about-the-author.html).
43[He woke up after eleven and didn't go outside all day, not even to his Writing Shack.](cereal.html)
44[He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break.](yellow.html)
45[He wrote JOKES on the top of a page in his notebook.](joke.html)
46
47["Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me" the voice on the phone was a woman's.](phone.html)
48[His first chair was a stool.](leg.html)
49[His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday.](hardware.html)
50[His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown.](fire.html)
51
52["How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, / and frightening that it does not quite," Jack Gilbert opens his poem "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart."](words-meaning.html)
53[How does one describe a poem?](on-genre-dimension.html)
54[I am a great pillar of white smoke.](i-am.html)
55[I can walk through the rain, that rare occurrence](walking-in-the-rain.html).
56[I didn't write this sestina yesterday.](exasperated.html)
57[I don't care if they burn he wrote on his last blank notecard.](snow.html)
58[I hear the rats run](in-bed.html).
59[I lost my hands & knit replacement ones](roughgloves.html).
60[I need a plant. I need a thing](plant.html).
61[I only write poems on the bus anymore.](sense-of-it.html)
62[I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.](epigraph.html)
63[I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game](weplayedthosegamestoo.html)
64[I think that I could write formal poems](onformalpoetry.html);
65[I thought I saw you walking](i-think-its-you.html).
66[I turned off the TV as soon as the end credits began.](dollywood.html)
67
68[I want to say I take it all back](i-want-to-say.html),
69[I wanted to tell you something in order to](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html)---
70[I was away on vacation when I heard---](howithappened.html)
71[I wish I'd kissed you when I had the chance.](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html)
72[I'm writing this now because I have to.](poetry-time.html)
73[If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth](sixteenth-chapel.html)---
74[if you swallow hard enough](listen.html)---
75[importance is important.](philosophy.html)
76[Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.](riptide_memory.html)
77
78["Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things" he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed.](father.html)
79[It had gotten cold.](dream.html)
80[It was a gamble](stayed-on-the-bus.html);
81[it was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the street only if Larry craned his neck to almost vertical.](telemarketer.html)
82[It's all jokes Paul wrote in what he was now calling his Hymnal.](hymnal.html)
83[January.](january.html)
84
85"[Like 40 as I challenge anyone to come too!](call-me-aural-pleasure.html)
86[Look, I say---look here---](found-typewriter-poem.html)
87[Lost things have a way of staying lost.](amber-alert.html)"
88[Man of autumn, cold wind,](cold-wind.html)
89[memory works strangely, spooling its thread](last-passenger.html).
90
91["My anger is like a peach," he said.](peaches.html)
92"[My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought.](spittle.html)"
93[My head is full of fire, my tongue swollen,](the-night-we-met.html)
94[nothing is ever over; nothing](nothing-is-ever-over.html)---
95[nothing matters; everything is sacred.](proverbs.html)
96[Now the ticking clocks scare me.](boar.html)
97
98[Of course, there is a God.](prelude.html)---
99[Okay, so there either is or isn't a God.](purpose-dogs.html)
100[On your desk I set a tangerine:](seasonal-affective-disorder.html)
101[Paul began typing on notecards.](notes.html)
102
103[Paul only did his reading on the toilet.](toilet.html)
104[Paul took his axe and went out into the woods to chop trees.](axe.html)
105[Paul was writing in his diary about art.](art.html)
106
107["Paul, you can't turn in your reports on four-by-six notecards" Jill told him after he handed her his reports, typed carefully on twelve four-by-six notecards.](reports.html)
108["Riding the bus to work is a good way to think or to read" Paul thought to himself on the bus ride to work.](stagnant.html)
109
110[Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined](elegyforanalternateself.html):
111[silence lies underneath us all in the same way](music-433.html)
112[it's the fucking moon. Big deal. As if](apollo11.html)
113[two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings](creation-myth.html)
114[feel as though I am not a real writer.](real-writer.html)
115[Somewhere I remember reading advice for beginning writers not to show their work to anyone, at least that in the early stages.](words-irritable-reaching.html)
116
117[Swans fly overhead singing goodbye](swansong.html):
118[THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES](man.html).
119[TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE"](treatise.html):
120[the definition of happiness is _doing stuff that you really like_.](likingthings.html)
121[The look she gave me (Half-hours in heaven are three times that in hell)](table_contents.html).
122[The moon is drowning the stars it pushes them](moon-drowning.html)---
123[The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. Looking at the night sky now](moongone.html),
124[the other side of this mountain](mountain.html):
125[the problem with people is this: we cannot be happy.](problems.html)
126[The radio is screaming the man](worse-looking-over.html)---
127[the self is a serengeti](serengeti.html)---
128[there are more modern ideals of beauty](todaniel.html)---
129[there is a cave just outside of Flagstaff made from ancient lava flows.](what-we-are-made-of.html)
130
131[There is a theory which states the Universe](initial-conditions.html),
132[this book, is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be lived.](howtoread.html)
133[This poem is dry like chapped lips.](swansong-alt.html)
134[Tonight, as I look up, the stars](finding-the-lion.html),
135[waiting for a reading to start](the-sea_the-beach.html),
136[walking along in the dark, is a good way to begin a song.](lovesong.html)
137
138[Walter rides the bus into work on Wednesday morning when he realizes, with the force and surprise of a rogue current, that he is in the home-for-death phase of life.](lappel-du-vide.html)
139[We found your shirt deep in the dark water](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html)---
140[what did he do when he was in the woods?](options.html)
141
142["What do you do all day in that shed out back" his mother asked one night while they ate dinner in front of the TV.](shed.html)
143
144[What is a poem?](manifesto_poetics.html)
145[What is poetry?](arspoetica.html)
146[What secrets does it hold?](largest-asteroid.html)
147[When I think of death I think](death-zone.html),
148[when Ronald McDonald takes off his striped shirt,](ronaldmcdonald.html)
149[when he finally got back to work, he was surprised they threw him a party.](punch.html)
150[When he said Bible I heard his southern accent](boy_bus.html):
151[whenever you call me friend](100-lines.html)
152[while chopping a tree in the woods with his hatchet (a Christmas gift from his mother) a bird he'd never heard before cried out.](x-ray.html)
153[While swimming in the river](no-nothing.html):
154[YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked.](early.html)
155
156[You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life.](feedingtheraven.html)
157[You think building Hoggle's a hard game?](hard-game.html)
158[Your casserole dish takes the longest:](when-im-sorry-i.html)
159[in mammals the ratio between bladder size](something-simple.html)
160[has been a part of the Unix toolset since the late 70s.](collage-instrument.html)
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19Look, I say---look here--- \ 18Look, I say---look here--- \
20at this [old place \ 19at this [old place \
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22> [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME][] 21> [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME][]
23> 22>
24> First, a history: I was writing my 23> First, a history: I was writing my
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