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2title: Last bastion
3genre: verse
4
5id: last-bastion
6toc: "Last bastion"
7
8project:
9 title: Stark Raving
10 class: stark
11 order: 10
12 next:
13 - title: AMBER alert
14 link: amber-alert
15 - title: Initial conditions
16 link: initial-conditions
17 prev:
18 - title: The Sixteenth Chapel
19 link: sixteenth-chapel.txt
20 - title: Boy on the bus
21 link: boy_bus
22...
23
24| Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle
25| down the cold and darkened highways of the heart.
26| They are the last personality left. They are [the meek
27| who inherited the heart][meek], what was left of it.\
28
29| Without food to cook in new or exciting ways
30| nor audience to gasp and cackle, the chefs
31| of the heart quietly waste away while staring
32| doe-eyed into now-empty Safeway windows
33| checking under the dusty produce shelves
34| for something they pray the [rats][] haven't found yet.
35
36| Years ago, the economy of the heart boomed
37| and there was food everywhere. Produce
38| piled high in pyramids of devotion, meat in
39| gilded glass cases opulent under fluorescence,
40| dairy which ran like the [mythical river][] toward
41| cereals hot and cold. Under it all, thrumming
42| like great stone wheels on sand under a hot sun
43| near a river where reeds sang in the wind
44| the heart produced and gave reward for hard labor.
45
46| No one knows when it all ended. No one can say
47| if it was the heart that dried up or the heart's supply.
48| Either way, food of the heart became scarcer and scarcer.
49| People began dying, not of starvation
50| but of a certain facial expression that could only
51| be described as desperation. Now
52| all that are left are the celebrity chefs, last bastion
53| of a once mighty empire of the [heart
54| are reduced to husks][heart] blown dry by wind.
55
56[meek]: http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-5.htm
57[rats]: in-bed.html
58[mythical river]: music-433.html
59[heart]: sense-of-it.html