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2title: Sense of it
3id: sense-of-it
4genre: verse
5
6project:
7 title: Autocento of the breakfast table
8 class: autocento
9...
10
11I only write poems on [the bus][] anymore. \
12I sit far in the back to be alone. \
13I mark black things on white things in a black thing. \
14I try to make sense of it.
15
16Every time I see a plastic bag in the wind I think: \
17[This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.][] \
18Most of my life I relate to something on the TV: \
19This is how I try to make sense of it.
20
21The Talking Heads song ["Stop Making Sense"][stop] \
22is about a girlfriend caught cheating and willed oblivion. \
23The song's real title is "Girlfriend is Better" \
24but [lying][] about it is a way I try to make sense of it.
25
26The day after I lost her I found you again. \
27Your face made a plastic bag of my heart. \
28Your eyes were [the wind][] pushing the bus forward. \
29I couldn't make sense of it.
30
31[stop]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4
32[This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qssvnjj5Moo
33[the wind]: cold-wind.html
34[lying]: the-night-we-met.html
35[the bus]: stagnant.html