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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: The Sixteenth Chapel | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: sixteenth-chapel | ||
| 6 | toc: "The sixteenth chapel" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | epigraph: | ||
| 9 | content: "Canadian High School!" | ||
| 10 | attrib: David Letterman | ||
| 11 | link: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_pwLyeoqk' | ||
| 12 | |||
| 13 | dedication: Max | ||
| 14 | |||
| 15 | project: | ||
| 16 | title: Stark Raving | ||
| 17 | class: stark | ||
| 18 | order: 17 | ||
| 19 | next: | ||
| 20 | - title: Last bastion | ||
| 21 | link: last-bastion | ||
| 22 | - title: Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing | ||
| 23 | link: music-433 | ||
| 24 | prev: | ||
| 25 | - title: Worse looking over | ||
| 26 | link: worse-looking-over | ||
| 27 | - title: Riptide of memory | ||
| 28 | link: riptide_memory | ||
| 29 | ... | ||
| 30 | |||
| 31 | | If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth | ||
| 32 | | chapel, I'm not either. I admit he is my role | ||
| 33 | | model. He's so current, so fresh and so new, | ||
| 34 | | and Michelangelo is so old, his art so dated. | ||
| 35 | | Where is the love in those old paintings? All | ||
| 36 | | I see is [creation][], [judgment][], and [death][]--- | ||
| 37 | |||
| 38 | | and I don't get the preoccupation with death. | ||
| 39 | | I'm about life! Ever since my sixteenth | ||
| 40 | | birthday, when me and my two sisters all | ||
| 41 | | nearly died when the car I was driving rolled | ||
| 42 | | into a creek. Even though I've [forgotten the date][], | ||
| 43 | | I think it keeps me thinking on the new, | ||
| 44 | |||
| 45 | | something Biebs would be proud of if he knew. | ||
| 46 | | I look at him, and see the [opposite of death][] | ||
| 47 | | in his eyes, his youthful smile: though someday | ||
| 48 | | he may [be a father][], and later host a Sweet Sixteen | ||
| 49 | | for his daughter (for whom I know he'll buy a Rolls), | ||
| 50 | | death will never find him. Living will be all | ||
| 51 | |||
| 52 | | he'll ever do, because it will be all | ||
| 53 | | he'll ever need to do. He is the eternal new, | ||
| 54 | | the [forever youth:][] this is the simple [role][] | ||
| 55 | | of every celebrity, to let us forget death. | ||
| 56 | | Bieber didn't make a mistake on the Sistine | ||
| 57 | | Chapel's name. He merely showed that someday | ||
| 58 | |||
| 59 | | all old names must go, that on some day | ||
| 60 | | a name must die so that the thing, which is all | ||
| 61 | | that matters, can stay as it was in the sixteenth | ||
| 62 | | century: fresh, ostentatious, and brand new. | ||
| 63 | | In a way, [the name becomes a Christ][], experiencing death | ||
| 64 | | so the world doesn't have to. But I am wary of this role | ||
| 65 | |||
| 66 | | for a name. It seems a name gives meaning, rolls | ||
| 67 | | the general idea together with the concrete, daily | ||
| 68 | | toil of the mundane. Are not life and death | ||
| 69 | | intertwined? Is not everything tied up all | ||
| 70 | | with everything? I guess I'm saying the new | ||
| 71 | | necessarily comes from the old, as every sixteen- | ||
| 72 | |||
| 73 | | year-old has a parent. [Life rolls to death][], and all | ||
| 74 | | is tied together. Each day is born of night, and dies so new | ||
| 75 | | morning can occur. Even the sixteenth chapel holds death. | ||
| 76 | |||
| 77 | [role]: words-meaning.html | ||
| 78 | [death]: deathstrumpet.html | ||
| 79 | [opposite of death]: death-zone.html | ||
| 80 | [creation]: creation-myth.html | ||
| 81 | [judgment]: movingsideways.html | ||
| 82 | [forgotten the date]: riptide_memory.html | ||
| 83 | [be a father]: i-am.html | ||
| 84 | [forever youth:]: about-the-author.html | ||
| 85 | [the name becomes a Christ]: nothing-is-ever-over.html | ||
| 86 | [Life rolls to death]: ouroboros_memory.html | ||