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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: 4. The Sixteenth Chapel | ||
3 | genre: verse | ||
4 | |||
5 | epigraph: | ||
6 | content: "Canadian High School!" | ||
7 | link: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_pwLyeoqk' | ||
8 | |||
9 | dedication: Max | ||
10 | |||
11 | project: | ||
12 | title: Stark Raving | ||
13 | css: stark | ||
14 | order: 17 | ||
15 | next: | ||
16 | - title: Last bastion | ||
17 | link: last-bastion | ||
18 | - title: | | ||
19 | Something about all music being performances of *4'33"* | ||
20 | in places where other bands happen to be playing | ||
21 | link: music-433 | ||
22 | prev: | ||
23 | - title: Worse looking over | ||
24 | link: worse-looking-over | ||
25 | - title: Riptide of memory | ||
26 | link: riptide_memory | ||
27 | ... | ||
28 | |||
29 | If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth \ | ||
30 | chapel, I'm not either. I admit he is my role \ | ||
31 | model. He's so current, so fresh and so new, \ | ||
32 | and Michelangelo is so old, his art so dated. \ | ||
33 | Where is the love in those old paintings? All \ | ||
34 | I see is creation, judgment, and death--- | ||
35 | |||
36 | and I don't get the preoccupation with death. \ | ||
37 | I'm about life! Ever since my sixteenth \ | ||
38 | birthday, when me and my two sisters all \ | ||
39 | nearly died when the car I was driving rolled \ | ||
40 | into a creek. Even though I've forgotten the date, \ | ||
41 | I think it keeps me thinking on the new, | ||
42 | |||
43 | something Biebs would be proud of if he knew. \ | ||
44 | I look at him, and see the opposite of death \ | ||
45 | in his eyes, his youthful smile: though someday \ | ||
46 | he may be a father, and later host a Sweet Sixteen \ | ||
47 | for his daughter (who I know he'll buy a Rolls), \ | ||
48 | death will never find him. Living will be all | ||
49 | |||
50 | he'll ever do, because it will be all \ | ||
51 | he'll ever need to do. He is the eternal new, \ | ||
52 | the forever youth: this is the simple role \ | ||
53 | of every celebrity, to let us forget death. \ | ||
54 | Bieber didn't make a mistake on the Sistine \ | ||
55 | Chapel's name. He merely showed that someday | ||
56 | |||
57 | all old names must go, that on some day \ | ||
58 | a name must die so that the thing, which is all \ | ||
59 | that matters, can stay as it was in the sixteenth \ | ||
60 | century: fresh, ostentatious, and brand new. \ | ||
61 | In a way, the name becomes a Christ, experiencing death \ | ||
62 | so the world doesn't have to. But I am wary of this role | ||
63 | |||
64 | for a name. It seems a name gives meaning, rolls \ | ||
65 | the general idea together with the concrete, daily \ | ||
66 | toil of the mundane. Are not life and death \ | ||
67 | intertwined? Is not everything tied up all \ | ||
68 | with everything? I guess I'm saying the new \ | ||
69 | necessarily comes from the old, as every sixteen- | ||
70 | |||
71 | year-old has a parent. Life rolls to death, and all \ | ||
72 | is tied together. Each day is born of night, and dies so new \ | ||
73 | morning can occur. Even the sixteenth chapel holds death. | ||