about summary refs log tree commit diff stats
path: root/death-zone.html
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'death-zone.html')
-rw-r--r--death-zone.html148
1 files changed, 73 insertions, 75 deletions
diff --git a/death-zone.html b/death-zone.html index fc4473d..334a7cb 100644 --- a/death-zone.html +++ b/death-zone.html
@@ -4,89 +4,87 @@
4--> 4-->
5<html lang="en"> 5<html lang="en">
6<head> 6<head>
7 <meta charset="utf-8"> 7<meta charset="utf-8">
8 <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> 8<meta name="generator" content="pandoc">
9 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> 9<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">
10 <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> 10<meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth">
11 11
12 <title>The Death Zone | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> 12<title>The Death Zone | Autocento of the breakfast table</title>
13 <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" /> 13<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" />
14 14
15 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_style.css"> 15<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="trunk/style.css">
16 <script src="trunk/lozenge.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> 16<script src="scripts/randomize.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
17 <script src="trunk/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> 17<script src="scripts/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
18 18
19 <!--[if lt IE 9]> 19<!--[if lt IE 9]>
20 <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> 20<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script>
21 <![endif]--> 21<![endif]-->
22 </head> 22</head>
23<body id="death-zone" class="stark"> 23<body id="death-zone" class="stark">
24
25 24
26 <article class="container"> 25<article class="container">
27 <header> 26<header>
28 <!-- title --> 27<!-- title -->
29 <h1 class="title">The Death Zone</h1> 28<h1 class="title">The Death Zone</h1>
30
31 29
32 <div class="header-extra">
33
34 <!-- epigraph -->
35 <div class="epigraph">
36 <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death">And my life became death.</a>
37
38 <div class="attrib">Philip Gould</div>
39 </div>
40 </div>
41 </header>
42 30
43 <div class="ekphrastic"> 31<div class="header-extra">
44 <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death">
45 <img src="trunk/gould.png"
46 title="Philip Gould"
47 alt="Philip Gould"
48 />
49 </a>
50 </div>
51
52 <section class="content verse">
53 <p><span class="line">When I think of death I think</span><span class="line">of Peter Falk in <em>The Princess Bride</em> patting</span><span class="line"><a href="creation-myth.html">his pockets</a> as he leaves the room</span></p>
54 <p><span class="line">Life is a series of doors or so</span><span class="line">they say but I ask them this</span><span class="line">where does that last door lead?</span></p>
55 <p><span class="line">For Falk maybe it leads backstage</span><span class="line">a black-walled catered affair with stage</span><span class="line">lights slowly baking stale muffins</span></p>
56 <p><span class="line"><a href="i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html">Sweaty cheese</a> leaking onto dried-out</span><span class="line">grapes a chocolate fountain clogged</span><span class="line">by some errant strawberry crown</span></p>
57 <p><span class="line">but this is not where it leads for you or</span><span class="line">for me that door opens onto darkness marked</span><span class="line">only by a trellis or the lid of a casket</span></p>
58 <p><span class="line">the door of the <a href="about-the-author.html">earth’s womb</a> opening</span><span class="line">finally to accept us and with us the dirt</span><span class="line">not to grow more strawberries for Falk</span></p>
59 <p><span class="line">but to pad his feet as he walks overhead</span><span class="line">to visit someone he certainly cares about</span><span class="line">but whose name is lost to posterity.</span></p>
60 </section>
61 </article>
62 <nav>
63 <div class="anchors">
64 <a href="death-zone_backlinks.htm" id="back-link" title="Links to this page">
65 &phi;
66 </a>
67 <a href="index.html" id="cover-link" title="To cover">&loz;</a>
68 <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="ERROR">&xi;</a>
69 </div>
70 32
71 <a class="prevlink" href="exasperated.html" 33<!-- epigraph -->
72 title="Previous article in Stark Raving"> 34<div class="epigraph">
73 Exasperated 35<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death">And my life became death.</a>
74 </a> 36
75 <a class="prevlink" href="amber-alert.html" 37<div class="attrib">Philip Gould</div>
76 title="Previous article in Stark Raving"> 38</div>
77 AMBER alert 39</div>
78 </a> 40</header>
79 41
80 <a class="nextlink" href="big-dipper.html" 42<div class="ekphrastic">
81 title="Next article in Stark Raving"> 43<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death">
82 The Big Dipper 44<img src="trunk/gould.png"
83 </a> 45title="Philip Gould"
84 <a class="nextlink" href="exasperated.html" 46alt="Philip Gould"
85 title="Next article in Stark Raving"> 47/>
86 Exasperated 48</a>
87 </a> 49</div>
88 </nav> 50
51<section class="content verse">
52<p><span class="line">When I think of death I think</span><span class="line">of Peter Falk in <em>The Princess Bride</em> patting</span><span class="line"><a href="creation-myth.html">his pockets</a> as he leaves the room</span></p>
53<p><span class="line">Life is a series of doors or so</span><span class="line">they say but I ask them this</span><span class="line">where does that last door lead?</span></p>
54<p><span class="line">For Falk maybe it leads backstage</span><span class="line">a black-walled catered affair with stage</span><span class="line">lights slowly baking stale muffins</span></p>
55<p><span class="line"><a href="i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html">Sweaty cheese</a> leaking onto dried-out</span><span class="line">grapes a chocolate fountain clogged</span><span class="line">by some errant strawberry crown</span></p>
56<p><span class="line">but this is not where it leads for you or</span><span class="line">for me that door opens onto darkness marked</span><span class="line">only by a trellis or the lid of a casket</span></p>
57<p><span class="line">the door of the <a href="about-the-author.html">earth’s womb</a> opening</span><span class="line">finally to accept us and with us the dirt</span><span class="line">not to grow more strawberries for Falk</span></p>
58<p><span class="line">but to pad his feet as he walks overhead</span><span class="line">to visit someone he certainly cares about</span><span class="line">but whose name is lost to posterity.</span></p>
59</section>
60</article>
61<nav>
62<div class="anchors">
63<a href="backlinks/death-zone.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page">
64&phi;
65</a>
66<a href="index.html" id="coverlink" title="To cover">&loz;</a>
67<a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">&xi;</a>
68</div>
69
70<a class="prevlink" href="exasperated.html"
71title="Previous article in Stark Raving">
72Exasperated
73</a>
74<a class="prevlink" href="amber-alert.html"
75title="Previous article in Stark Raving">
76AMBER alert
77</a>
78
79<a class="nextlink" href="big-dipper.html"
80title="Next article in Stark Raving">
81The Big Dipper
82</a>
83<a class="nextlink" href="exasperated.html"
84title="Next article in Stark Raving">
85Exasperated
86</a>
87</nav>
89 88
90
91</body> 89</body>
92</html> 90</html>
© 2022 C. Duckworth. generated by cgit. comments, issues, and patches welcome at < git at acdw dot net >.