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+title: The boar
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Elegies for alternate selves
+    css: elegies
+    order: 8
+    prev:
+        title: The ocean overflows with camels
+        link: theoceanoverflowswithcamels
+    next:
+        title: Dead man
+        link: deadman
+...
+
+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."
+
+[empty]: mountain.html
+[Fifteen feet]: telemarketer.html
+[house]: i-am.html