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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: The Death Zone | ||
3 | id: death-zone | ||
4 | genre: verse | ||
5 | |||
6 | epigraph: | ||
7 | content: And my life became death. | ||
8 | attrib: Philip Gould | ||
9 | link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death | ||
10 | |||
11 | ekphrastic: | ||
12 | image: gould.png | ||
13 | title: Philip Gould | ||
14 | link: 'http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death' | ||
15 | |||
16 | project: | ||
17 | title: Stark Raving | ||
18 | class: stark | ||
19 | order: 7 | ||
20 | next: | ||
21 | - title: The Big Dipper | ||
22 | link: big-dipper | ||
23 | - title: Exasperated | ||
24 | link: exasperated | ||
25 | prev: | ||
26 | - title: Exasperated | ||
27 | link: exasperated | ||
28 | - title: AMBER alert | ||
29 | link: amber-alert | ||
30 | ... | ||
31 | |||
32 | When I think of death I think \ | ||
33 | of Peter Falk in _The Princess Bride_ patting \ | ||
34 | [his pockets][] as he leaves the room | ||
35 | |||
36 | Life is a series of doors or so \ | ||
37 | they say but I ask them this \ | ||
38 | where does that last door lead? | ||
39 | |||
40 | For Falk maybe it leads backstage \ | ||
41 | a black-walled catered affair with stage \ | ||
42 | lights slowly baking stale muffins | ||
43 | |||
44 | [Sweaty cheese][] leaking onto dried-out \ | ||
45 | grapes a chocolate fountain clogged \ | ||
46 | by some errant strawberry crown | ||
47 | |||
48 | but this is not where it leads for you or \ | ||
49 | for me that door opens onto darkness marked \ | ||
50 | only by a trellis or the lid of a casket | ||
51 | |||
52 | the door of the [earth's womb][] opening \ | ||
53 | finally to accept us and with us the dirt \ | ||
54 | not to grow more strawberries for Falk | ||
55 | |||
56 | but to pad his feet as he walks overhead \ | ||
57 | to visit someone he certainly cares about \ | ||
58 | but whose name is lost to posterity. | ||
59 | |||
60 | [his pockets]: creation-myth.html | ||
61 | [Sweaty cheese]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html | ||
62 | [earth's womb]: about-the-author.html | ||