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2title: One hundred lines
3id: one-hundred-lines
4genre: verse
5
6project:
7 title: Autocento of the breakfast table
8 class: autocento
9...
10
11| Whenever you call me friend
12| I fall down on my knees and cry
13| because I know it's the only thing
14| never to happen before in this
15| life is something you can't see
16| it's a pillow under a [hook shot][]
17| [I want to tell you something anything][tell-you]
18| but you are there and I am here
19| we are [trapped inside ourselves][trapped]
20| and the distance is too far
21| you are something that I would tell
22| [would be nothing][] before too long
23| you are not the finisher of dreams
24| you are the beginning of [nightmares][]
25| or waking but I'm not sure which
26| this [letter is for you][] in the future
27| it will lead you on the path
28| of goodness or of rightness or of
29| wrong people and right meanings
30| or the meaning will be hidden
31| or wrestling the demon I will have become
32| restless under the starlight
33| it's too bright here to think
34| the negatives would be pitch black
35| darkness of a silver mine
36| there are [no trees][] here
37| where have you been where are you now
38| I am no longer here or there
39| you are anywhere or are you
40| up in the clouds is a ghost
41| he is white and blue like a cloud
42| he paints with his teeth
43| he paints the rainbow before midnight
44| that you can see from your window
45| staring out under the sunlight
46| through the gauze curtains
47| [over the high mountain][mountain] far away
48| that is covered over with snow
49| past the rivers and forests
50| that lie awake under Orion
51| hunting the bull that runs forever
52| just out of his reach
53| pointing the way for the two of us
54| to join together in song or dance
55| or that other thing and sing
56| the Grinch down off Mount Crumpet
57| [his heart breaking his chest][heart]
58| thumping with the beat
59| his [little dog too][] running running
60| with the bull full of laughter and blood
61| he can't see it anymore because it's become him
62| we are trapped he says we are
63| trapped in ourselves it turns out
64| that all along it wasn't you or me
65| but he and her or her and him or
66| he and he or she and she or they
67| even they tell us that nothing has happened
68| even they know that it's a big joke
69| one more thing to know before the death
70| we are crying like crocodiles
71| before their loved ones' coffins
72| we are bellowing with grief like buffalo
73| on a berth of wild oxen
74| we are wailing our clothes are in rags
75| [we want][want1] [we want][want2] [we want][want3]
76| but never can we get
77| what is it
78| we don't know what it is
79| but it's something it's anything
80| it's too many people or not enough
81| it's too few trees we need more
82| beavers to build riverdams we need
83| grapes too or [plums][] from the ice box
84| or an ice box even would be nice
85| all I have is this cube isn't that right
86| or is a sphere a cube a donut a coffee
87| cup your hands in mine yes that's right
88| now bring the water to your face
89| clear and cool and
90| full of something
91| what is it wanting
92| or yearning
93| I can see in your eyes they're clear now
94| they are as clear as a running stream
95| or the sky that's clear right
96| or the water that is in the Bahamas
97| because I hear that's clear
98| you're as clear as the sound of a bell
99| you're as clear as the [braying of horses][]
100| you're as clear as the glass in God's eye
101| and I
102| I'm as dull as an ox plowing
103| [through fields in his yoke][yoke]
104| I'm as dull as clouded amber
105| I'm dull as you find me
106| tonight after dinner
107| I'm reading the crossword
108| you're sitting beside me
109| you're watching TV.
110
111[hook shot]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html
112[tell-you]: lovesong.html
113[trapped]: howtoread.html
114[would be nothing]: no-nothing.html
115[nightmares]: in-bed.html
116[letter is for you]: poetry-time.html
117[no trees]: plant.html
118[mountain]: mountain.html
119[heart]: moon-drowning.html
120[little dog too]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUpxmlZ2hyM
121[want1]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html
122[want2]: fire.html
123[want3]: lovesong.html
124[plums]: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/245576
125[braying of horses]: table_contents.html
126[yoke]: last-passenger.html