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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: The Death Zone | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | epigraph: | ||
6 | content: And my life became death. | ||
7 | attrib: Philip Gould | ||
8 | link: TODO | ||
9 | |||
10 | project: | ||
11 | title: Stark Raving | ||
12 | css: stark | ||
13 | order: 7 | ||
14 | next: | ||
15 | - title: The Big Dipper | ||
16 | link: big-dipper | ||
17 | - title: Exasperated | ||
18 | link: exasperated | ||
19 | prev: | ||
20 | - title: Exasperated | ||
21 | link: exasperated | ||
22 | - title: AMBER alert | ||
23 | link: amber-alert | ||
24 | ... | ||
25 | |||
26 | ![TODO] | ||
27 | |||
28 | When I think of death I think \ | ||
29 | of Peter Falk in _The Princess Bride_ patting \ | ||
30 | his pockets as he leaves the room | ||
31 | |||
32 | Life is a series of doors or so \ | ||
33 | they say but I ask them this \ | ||
34 | where does that last door lead? | ||
35 | |||
36 | For Falk maybe it leads backstage \ | ||
37 | a black-walled catered affair with stage \ | ||
38 | lights slowly baking stale muffins | ||
39 | |||
40 | Sweaty cheese leaking onto dried-out \ | ||
41 | grapes a chocolate fountain clogged \ | ||
42 | by some errant strawberry crown | ||
43 | |||
44 | but this is not where it leads for you or \ | ||
45 | for me that door opens onto darkness marked \ | ||
46 | only by a trellis or the lid of a casket | ||
47 | |||
48 | the door of the earth's womb opening \ | ||
49 | finally to accept us and with us the dirt \ | ||
50 | not to grow more strawberries for Falk | ||
51 | |||
52 | but to pad his feet as he walks overhead \ | ||
53 | to visit someone he certainly cares about \ | ||
54 | but whose name is lost to posterity. | ||