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2title: The Death Zone
3genre: verse
4
5id: death-zone
6toc: "The death zone"
7
8epigraph:
9 content: And my life became death.
10 attrib: Philip Gould
11 link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death
12
13ekphrastic:
14 image: gould.png
15 title: Philip Gould
16 link: 'http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death'
17
18project:
19 title: Stark Raving
20 class: stark
21 order: 7
22 next:
23 - title: The Big Dipper
24 link: big-dipper
25 - title: Exasperated
26 link: exasperated
27 prev:
28 - title: Exasperated
29 link: exasperated
30 - title: AMBER alert
31 link: amber-alert
32...
33
34| When I think of death I think
35| of Peter Falk in _The Princess Bride_ patting
36| [his pockets][] as he leaves the room
37
38| Life is a series of doors or so
39| they say but I ask them this
40| where does that last door lead?
41
42| For Falk maybe it leads backstage
43| a black-walled catered affair with stage
44| lights slowly baking stale muffins
45
46| [Sweaty cheese][] leaking onto dried-out
47| grapes a chocolate fountain clogged
48| by some errant strawberry crown
49
50| but this is not where it leads for you or
51| for me that door opens onto darkness marked
52| only by a trellis or the lid of a casket
53
54| the door of the [earth's womb][] opening
55| finally to accept us and with us the dirt
56| not to grow more strawberries for Falk
57
58| but to pad his feet as he walks overhead
59| to visit someone he certainly cares about
60| but whose name is lost to posterity.
61
62[his pockets]: creation-myth.html
63[Sweaty cheese]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html
64[earth's womb]: about-the-author.html