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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Last bastion | ||
3 | id: last-bastion | ||
4 | genre: verse | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: Stark Raving | ||
8 | class: stark | ||
9 | order: 10 | ||
10 | next: | ||
11 | - title: AMBER alert | ||
12 | link: amber-alert | ||
13 | - title: Initial conditions | ||
14 | link: initial-conditions | ||
15 | prev: | ||
16 | - title: The Sixteenth Chapel | ||
17 | link: sixteenth-chapel.txt | ||
18 | - title: Boy on the bus | ||
19 | link: boy_bus | ||
20 | ... | ||
21 | |||
22 | Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle \ | ||
23 | down the cold and darkened highways of the heart. \ | ||
24 | They are the last personality left. They are [the meek \ | ||
25 | who inherited the heart][meek], what was left of it.\ | ||
26 | |||
27 | Without food to cook in new or exciting ways \ | ||
28 | nor audience to gasp and cackle, the chefs \ | ||
29 | of the heart quietly waste away while staring \ | ||
30 | doe-eyed into now-empty Safeway windows \ | ||
31 | checking under the dusty produce shelves \ | ||
32 | for something they pray the [rats][] haven't found yet. | ||
33 | |||
34 | Years ago, the economy of the heart boomed \ | ||
35 | and there was food everywhere. Produce \ | ||
36 | piled high in pyramids of devotion, meat in \ | ||
37 | gilded glass cases opulent under fluorescence, \ | ||
38 | dairy which ran like the [mythical river][] toward \ | ||
39 | cereals hot and cold. Under it all, thrumming \ | ||
40 | like great stone wheels on sand under a hot sun \ | ||
41 | near a river where reeds sang in the wind \ | ||
42 | the heart produced and gave reward for hard labor. | ||
43 | |||
44 | No one knows when it all ended. No one can say \ | ||
45 | if it was the heart that dried up or the heart's supply. \ | ||
46 | Either way, food of the heart became scarcer and scarcer. \ | ||
47 | People began dying, not of starvation \ | ||
48 | but of a certain facial expression that could only \ | ||
49 | be described as desperation. Now \ | ||
50 | all that are left are the celebrity chefs, last bastion \ | ||
51 | of a once mighty empire of the [heart \ | ||
52 | are reduced to husks][heart] blown dry by wind. | ||
53 | |||
54 | [meek]: http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-5.htm | ||
55 | [rats]: in-bed.html | ||
56 | [mythical river]: music-433.html | ||
57 | [heart]: sense-of-it.html | ||