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2title: Autocento of the breakfast table
3id: first-lines
4subtitle: index of first lines
5genre: prose
6
7project:
8 title: About Autocento
9 class: meta
10 next:
11 - title: About _Autocento_
12 link: about
13 prev:
14 - title: Index of common titles
15 link: common-titles
16...
17
18[A dead man finds his way into our hearts](deadman.html)
19[a dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk.](movingsideways.html)
20[ART and CRAFT are only the inside and outside of the same building.](building.html)
21[Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear:](angeltoabraham.html)
22[after searching for days or even months](big-dipper.html)
23[and you were there in the start of it all](and.html)
24[apparently typewriters need ribbon.](tapestry.html)
25[Bottom of the drink: they had](ex-machina.html)
26[contents of the shed](paul.html).
27
28["Can one truly describe an emotion?" Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie.](statements-frag.html)
29[Case Duckworth is the cowardly but lovable Great Dane who solves mysteries on TV.](about_author.html)
30[Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle](last-bastion.html).
31["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)
32[EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](planks.html).
33[EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](swear.html).
34[God is love, they say, but there is](love-as-god.html)
35[hymn 386: jokes](window.html).
36
37[He builds a ship as if it were the last thing](shipwright.html)
38[he chopped down: a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch.](sapling.html)
39[He couldn't find a shirt to go to work in.](toothpaste.html)
40[He didn't go back into the shed for a long time.](wallpaper.html)
41[He didn't have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing,](deathstrumpet.html)
42[he dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.](underwear.html)
43[He is so full in himself:](squirrel.html)
44[He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing.](hands.html)
45[He said at the beginning, "It's like rolling yarn into a too-small ball.](ouroboros_memory.html)"
46[He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping.](writing.html)
47[He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack.](leaf.html)
48[He walked into the woods for the first time in months.](stump.html)
49[He was born on a few separate occasions: green traffic lights at night](about-the-author.html).
50[He woke up after eleven and didn't go outside all day, not even to his Writing Shack.](cereal.html)
51[He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break.](yellow.html)
52[He wrote JOKES on the top of a page in his notebook.](joke.html)
53
54["Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me" the voice on the phone was a woman's.](phone.html)
55[His first chair was a stool.](leg.html)
56[His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday.](hardware.html)
57[His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown.](fire.html)
58
59["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)
60[How does one describe a poem?](on-genre-dimension.html)
61[I am a great pillar of white smoke.](i-am.html)
62[I can walk through the rain, that rare occurrence](walking-in-the-rain.html).
63[I didn't write this sestina yesterday.](exasperated.html)
64[I don't care if they burn he wrote on his last blank notecard.](snow.html)
65[I hear the rats run](in-bed.html).
66[I lost my hands & knit replacement ones](roughgloves.html).
67[I need a plant. I need a thing](plant.html).
68[I only write poems on the bus anymore.](sense-of-it.html)
69[I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.](epigraph.html)
70[I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game](weplayedthosegamestoo.html)
71[I think that I could write formal poems](onformalpoetry.html);
72[I thought I saw you walking](i-think-its-you.html).
73[I turned off the TV as soon as the end credits began.](dollywood.html)
74
75[I want to say I take it all back](i-want-to-say.html),
76[I wanted to tell you something in order to](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html) ---
77[I was away on vacation when I heard ---](howithappened.html)
78[I wish I'd kissed you when I had the chance.](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html)
79[I'm writing this now because I have to.](poetry-time.html)
80[If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth](sixteenth-chapel.html) ---
81[if you swallow hard enough](listen.html) ---
82[importance is important.](philosophy.html)
83[Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.](riptide_memory.html)
84
85["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)
86[It had gotten cold.](dream.html)
87[It was a gamble](stayed-on-the-bus.html);
88[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)
89[It's all jokes Paul wrote in what he was now calling his Hymnal.](hymnal.html)
90[January.](january.html)
91
92"[Like 40 as I challenge anyone to come too!](call-me-aural-pleasure.html)
93[Look, I say --- look here ---](found-typewriter-poem.html)
94[Lost things have a way of staying lost.](amber-alert.html)"
95[Man of autumn, cold wind,](cold-wind.html)
96[memory works strangely, spooling its thread](last-passenger.html).
97
98["My anger is like a peach," he said.](peaches.html)
99"[My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought.](spittle.html)"
100[My head is full of fire, my tongue swollen,](the-night-we-met.html)
101[nothing is ever over; nothing](nothing-is-ever-over.html) ---
102[nothing matters; everything is sacred.](proverbs.html)
103[Now the ticking clocks scare me.](boar.html)
104
105[Of course, there is a God.](prelude.html) ---
106[Okay, so there either is or isn't a God.](purpose-dogs.html)
107[On your desk I set a tangerine:](seasonal-affective-disorder.html)
108[Paul began typing on notecards.](notes.html)
109
110[Paul only did his reading on the toilet.](toilet.html)
111[Paul took his axe and went out into the woods to chop trees.](axe.html)
112[Paul was writing in his diary about art.](art.html)
113
114["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)
115["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)
116
117[Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined](elegyforanalternateself.html):
118[silence lies underneath us all in the same way](music-433.html)
119[it's the fucking moon. Big deal. As if](apollo11.html)
120[two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings](creation-myth.html)
121[feel as though I am not a real writer.](real-writer.html)
122[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)
123
124[Swans fly overhead singing goodbye](swansong.html):
125[THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES](man.html).
126[TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE"](treatise.html):
127[the definition of happiness is _doing stuff that you really like_.](likingthings.html)
128[The look she gave me (Half-hours in heaven are three times that in hell)](table_contents.html).
129[The moon is drowning the stars it pushes them](moon-drowning.html) ---
130[The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. Looking at the night sky now](moongone.html),
131[the other side of this mountain](mountain.html):
132[the problem with people is this: we cannot be happy.](problems.html)
133[The radio is screaming the man](worse-looking-over.html) ---
134[the self is a serengeti](serengeti.html) ---
135[there are more modern ideals of beauty](todaniel.html) ---
136[there is a cave just outside of Flagstaff made from ancient lava flows.](what-we-are-made-of.html)
137
138[There is a theory which states the Universe](initial-conditions.html),
139[this book, is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be lived.](howtoread.html)
140[This poem is dry like chapped lips.](swansong-alt.html)
141[Tonight, as I look up, the stars](finding-the-lion.html),
142[waiting for a reading to start](the-sea_the-beach.html),
143[walking along in the dark, is a good way to begin a song.](lovesong.html)
144
145[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)
146[We found your shirt deep in the dark water](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html) ---
147[what did he do when he was in the woods?](options.html)
148
149["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)
150
151[What is a poem?](manifesto_poetics.html)
152[What is poetry?](arspoetica.html)
153[What secrets does it hold?](largest-asteroid.html)
154[When I think of death I think](death-zone.html),
155[when Ronald McDonald takes off his striped shirt,](ronaldmcdonald.html)
156[when he finally got back to work, he was surprised they threw him a party.](punch.html)
157[When he said Bible I heard his southern accent](boy_bus.html):
158[whenever you call me friend](100-lines.html)
159[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)
160[While swimming in the river](no-nothing.html):
161[YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked.](early.html)
162
163[You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life.](feedingtheraven.html)
164[You think building Hoggle's a hard game?](hard-game.html)
165[Your casserole dish takes the longest:](when-im-sorry-i.html)
166[in mammals the ratio between bladder size](something-simple.html)
167[has been a part of the Unix toolset since the late 70s.](collage-instrument.html)