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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: 100 lines | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
7 | css: autocento | ||
8 | ... | ||
9 | |||
10 | Whenever you call me friend \ | ||
11 | I fall down on my knees and cry \ | ||
12 | because I know it's the only thing \ | ||
13 | never to happen before in this \ | ||
14 | life is something you can't see \ | ||
15 | it's a pillow under a hook shot \ | ||
16 | I want to tell you something anything \ | ||
17 | but you are there and I am here \ | ||
18 | we are trapped inside ourselves \ | ||
19 | and the distance is too far \ | ||
20 | you are something that I would tell \ | ||
21 | would be nothing before too long \ | ||
22 | you are not the finisher of dreams \ | ||
23 | you are the beginning of nightmares \ | ||
24 | or waking but I'm not sure which \ | ||
25 | this letter is for you in the future \ | ||
26 | it will lead you on the path \ | ||
27 | of goodness or of rightness or of \ | ||
28 | wrong people and right meanings \ | ||
29 | or the meaning will be hidden \ | ||
30 | or wrestling the demon I will have become \ | ||
31 | restless under the starlight \ | ||
32 | it's too bright here to think \ | ||
33 | the negatives would be pitch black \ | ||
34 | darkness of a silver mine \ | ||
35 | there are no trees here \ | ||
36 | where have you been where are you now \ | ||
37 | I am no longer here or there \ | ||
38 | you are anywhere or are you \ | ||
39 | up in the clouds is a ghost \ | ||
40 | he is white and blue like a cloud \ | ||
41 | he paints with his teeth \ | ||
42 | he paints the rainbow before midnight \ | ||
43 | that you can see from your window \ | ||
44 | staring out under the sunlight \ | ||
45 | through the gauze curtains \ | ||
46 | over the high mountain far away \ | ||
47 | that is covered over with snow \ | ||
48 | past the rivers and forests \ | ||
49 | that lie awake under Orion \ | ||
50 | hunting the bull that runs forever \ | ||
51 | just out of his reach \ | ||
52 | pointing the way for the two of us \ | ||
53 | to join together in song or dance \ | ||
54 | or that other thing and sing \ | ||
55 | the Grinch down off Mount Crumpet \ | ||
56 | his heart breaking his chest \ | ||
57 | thumping with the beat \ | ||
58 | his little dog too running running \ | ||
59 | with the bull full of laughter and blood \ | ||
60 | he can't see it anymore because it's become him \ | ||
61 | we are trapped he says we are \ | ||
62 | trapped in ourselves it turns out \ | ||
63 | that all along it wasn't you or me \ | ||
64 | but he and her or her and him or \ | ||
65 | he and he or she and she or they \ | ||
66 | even they tell us that nothing has happened \ | ||
67 | even they know that it's a big joke \ | ||
68 | one more thing to know before the death \ | ||
69 | we are crying like alligators \ | ||
70 | before their loved ones' coffins \ | ||
71 | we are bellowing with grief like buffalo \ | ||
72 | on a berth of wild oxen \ | ||
73 | we are wailing our clothes are in rags \ | ||
74 | we want we want we want \ | ||
75 | but never can we get \ | ||
76 | what is it \ | ||
77 | we don't know what it is \ | ||
78 | but it's something it's anything \ | ||
79 | it's too many people or not enough \ | ||
80 | it's too few trees we need more \ | ||
81 | beavers to build riverdams we need \ | ||
82 | grapes too or plums from the ice box \ | ||
83 | or an ice box even would be nice \ | ||
84 | all I have is this cube isn't that right \ | ||
85 | or is a sphere a cube a donut a coffee \ | ||
86 | cup your hands in mine yes that's right \ | ||
87 | now bring the water to your face \ | ||
88 | clear and cool and \ | ||
89 | full of something \ | ||
90 | what is it wanting \ | ||
91 | or yearning \ | ||
92 | I can see in your eyes they're clear now \ | ||
93 | they are as clear as a running stream \ | ||
94 | or the sky that's clear right \ | ||
95 | or the water that is in the Bahamas \ | ||
96 | because I hear that's clear \ | ||
97 | you're as clear as the sound of a bell \ | ||
98 | you're as clear as the braying of horses \ | ||
99 | you're as clear as the glass in God's eye \ | ||
100 | and I \ | ||
101 | I'm as dull as an ox plowing \ | ||
102 | through fields in his yoke \ | ||
103 | I'm as dull as clouded amber \ | ||
104 | I'm dull as you find me \ | ||
105 | tonight after dinner \ | ||
106 | I'm reading the crossword \ | ||
107 | you're sitting beside me \ | ||
108 | you're watching TV. | ||