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@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ project:
       link: death-zone
 ...
 
-I didn't write this sestina yesterday. \
+I didn't write this sestina yesterday.  \
 It's the first time I fell behind in my task \
-and hopefully, the only time it will. \
+and hopefully, the only time it will.  \
 This means that today I must write two \
-sestinas. If I don't write them today, I \
+sestinas.  If I don't write them today, I \
 will have to write two later down the line.
 
 Although I feel I'm slogging through each line \
@@ -30,36 +30,42 @@ I think I'm doing better every day, \
 though maybe this is wishful thinking: I \
 showed my friend my just-completed task \
 two days ago (my God, was it two \
-entire days? I've no idea what I'll
+entire days?  I've no idea what I'll
 
-do after thirty-nine days. I think I'll \
-feel like Inigo Montoya, who'd been in the line \
+do [after thirty-nine days][].  I think I'll \
+feel like [Inigo Montoya][], who'd been in the line \
 of revenging for so long, he didn't know what to \
 do with the rest of his life), and he deigned \
 to be polite, but I could tell the task \
-was hard for him. He told me finally that I
+was hard for him.  He told me finally that I
 
 had made a noble effort, but that ultimately I \
-failed. So my question: when will \
-I be a decent sestina writer? For this is my task. \
+failed.  [So my question][]: when will \
+I be a decent sestina writer?  For this is my task.  \
 Maybe if I just keep cranking out line after line \
-I'll finally figure it out. Maybe one more day \
+I'll finally figure it out.  Maybe one more day \
 or another week will do it, or maybe I'll need two,
 
-or maybe it'll never happen. Maybe a sestina's too \
-involved, too much weaving of words too fine, and I \
+or maybe it'll never happen.  Maybe a sestina's too \
+involved, too much [weaving][] of words too fine, and I \
 will never write a good one, even on my best day, \
-even if I employ all my skill and all my will. \
+even if I employ all my skill and all my will.  \
 I'm not used to writing poems with thirty-nine lines, \
 that must be the problem, must be why this task
 
-is Herculean. He only had to finish twelve tasks, \
+is Herculean.  He only had to finish twelve tasks, \
 and I have one less one thousand, five hundred twenty-two, \
 and it's nothing but complaining lines \
-about how hard it is to be a person. I \
+about [how hard it is to be a person][].  I \
 am getting sick of myself with these poems, and will \
 soon be loathe to get out of bed every day.
 
 But I tasked myself with this, which may be the worst I \
-ever do to myself. I thought a poem NaNoWriMo would \
+ever do to myself.  I thought a poem NaNoWriMo would \
 be fun, would line my resume, give me something I could publish someday.
+
+[after thirty-nine days]: http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/11-24.htm
+[Inigo Montoya]: death-zone.html
+[So my question]: question.html
+[weaving]: tapestry.html
+[how hard it is to be a person]: deathstrumpet.html