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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: I am | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
7 | css: elegies | ||
8 | order: 13 | ||
9 | prev: | ||
10 | title: On formal poetry | ||
11 | link: onformalpoetry | ||
12 | next: | ||
13 | title: How it happened | ||
14 | link: howithappened | ||
15 | ... | ||
16 | |||
17 | I am a great pillar of [white smoke][]. \ | ||
18 | I am Lot's nameless wife encased in salt. \ | ||
19 | I am the wound on Christ's back as he moans \ | ||
20 | with the pounding of a hammer on his wrist. \ | ||
21 | I am the nail that holds my house together. \ | ||
22 | It is a strong house, built on a good foundation. \ | ||
23 | In the winter, it is warm and crawling things \ | ||
24 | cannot get in. This house will never burn down. \ | ||
25 | It is the house that I built, with my body \ | ||
26 | and with my strength. I am the only one who lives \ | ||
27 | here. I am both father and mother to a race \ | ||
28 | of dust motes that worship me as a god. I have \ | ||
29 | monuments built daily in my honor in dark \ | ||
30 | corners around the house. I destroy all of them \ | ||
31 | before I go to bed, but in the morning \ | ||
32 | there are still more. I don't think I know \ | ||
33 | where all of them are. I [don't think][not think] I can get \ | ||
34 | to all of them anymore. There are too many. | ||
35 | |||
36 | [white smoke]: deathstrumpet.html | ||
37 | [not think]: howithappened.html | ||