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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: No nothing | ||
3 | id: no-nothing | ||
4 | genre: verse | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
8 | class: autocento | ||
9 | ... | ||
10 | |||
11 | | While [swimming in the river][] | ||
12 | | I saw [underneath it a river][] | ||
13 | | of stars. Only there was no | ||
14 | | river: it was noon. You can | ||
15 | | say the sun is a river; you | ||
16 | | can argue the stars back it | ||
17 | | like [shirts behind a closet][] | ||
18 | | door; you can say [the earth][] | ||
19 | | holds us up with its weight | ||
20 | | or that it means well or it | ||
21 | | means anything. | ||
22 | | There is no | ||
23 | | closet, [nor door][]; there are | ||
24 | | no shirts hanging anywhere. | ||
25 | | There is no false wall that | ||
26 | | leads deep into the earth's | ||
27 | | bowels, [growing warmer][] with | ||
28 | | each step. Warmth as a con- | ||
29 | | cept has ceased to make any | ||
30 | | sense. In contraposition to | ||
31 | | cold, it might, but cold as | ||
32 | | well [stepped out][] last night | ||
33 | | and hasn't returned. | ||
34 | | Last I | ||
35 | | heard, it went out swimming | ||
36 | | and [might've drowned][]. Trees | ||
37 | | were the pallbearers at the | ||
38 | | funeral, the train was long | ||
39 | | and wailful, there was much | ||
40 | | [wailing and gnashing][] of all | ||
41 | | teeth--though there were no | ||
42 | | teeth, no train, no funeral | ||
43 | | or prayer or trees at all-- | ||
44 | | nor a [river underneath][] any- | ||
45 | | thing. There was nothing to | ||
46 | | be underneath anymore. | ||
47 | | Look | ||
48 | | around, and tell me you see | ||
49 | | something. Look around, and | ||
50 | | tell me something that I do | ||
51 | | not know. I know, more than | ||
52 | | anything, that the world is | ||
53 | | always ending. Behind that, | ||
54 | | there is nothing, save that | ||
55 | | there is no nothing either. | ||
56 | | | ||
57 | | Nothing somehow still turns | ||
58 | | and flows past us, past all | ||
59 | | time and beyond it, a river | ||
60 | | returning, to its forgotten | ||
61 | | origins deep within itself. | ||
62 | |||
63 | [swimming in the river]: father.html | ||
64 | [shirts behind a closet]: lovessong.html | ||
65 | [the earth]: big-dipper.html | ||
66 | [nor door]: amber-alert.html | ||
67 | [growing warmer]: real-writer.html | ||
68 | [stepped out]: i-think-its-you.html | ||
69 | [might've drowned]: in-bed.html | ||
70 | [wailing and gnashing]: http://biblehub.com/luke/13-28.htm | ||
71 | [river underneath]: howtoread.html | ||
72 | [underneath it a river]: music-433.html | ||