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-title: The Sixteenth Chapel
-id: sixteenth-chapel
-genre: verse
-
-epigraph:
-    content: "Canadian High School!"
-    attrib: David Letterman
-    link: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_pwLyeoqk'
-
-dedication: Max
-
-project:
-    title: Stark Raving
-    class: stark
-    order: 17
-    next:
-    - title: Last bastion
-      link: last-bastion
-    - title: Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing
-      link: music-433
-    prev:
-    - title: Worse looking over
-      link: worse-looking-over
-    - title: Riptide of memory
-      link: riptide_memory
-...
-
-If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth \
-chapel, I'm not either.  I admit he is my role \
-model.  He's so current, so fresh and so new, \
-and Michelangelo is so old, his art so dated.  \
-Where is the love in those old paintings?  All \
-I see is [creation][], [judgment][], and [death][]---
-
-and I don't get the preoccupation with death.  \
-I'm about life!  Ever since my sixteenth \
-birthday, when me and my two sisters all \
-nearly died when the car I was driving rolled \
-into a creek.  Even though I've [forgotten the date][], \
-I think it keeps me thinking on the new,
-
-something Biebs would be proud of if he knew.  \
-I look at him, and see the [opposite of death][] \
-in his eyes, his youthful smile: though someday \
-he may [be a father][], and later host a Sweet Sixteen \
-for his daughter (who I know he'll buy a Rolls), \
-death will never find him.  Living will be all
-
-he'll ever do, because it will be all \
-he'll ever need to do.  He is the eternal new, \
-the [forever youth:][] this is the simple [role][] \
-of every celebrity, to let us forget death.  \
-Bieber didn't make a mistake on the Sistine \
-Chapel's name.  He merely showed that someday
-
-all old names must go, that on some day \
-a name must die so that the thing, which is all \
-that matters, can stay as it was in the sixteenth \
-century: fresh, ostentatious, and brand new.  \
-In a way, [the name becomes a Christ][], experiencing death \
-so the world doesn't have to.  But I am wary of this role
-
-for a name.  It seems a name gives meaning, rolls \
-the general idea together with the concrete, daily \
-toil of the mundane.  Are not life and death \
-intertwined?  Is not everything tied up all \
-with everything?  I guess I'm saying the new \
-necessarily comes from the old, as every sixteen-
-
-year-old has a parent.  [Life rolls to death][], and all \
-is tied together.  Each day is born of night, and dies so new \
-morning can occur.  Even the sixteenth chapel holds death.
-
-[role]: words-meaning.html
-[death]: deathstrumpet.html
-[opposite of death]: death-zone.html
-[creation]: creation-myth.html
-[judgment]: movingsideways.html
-[forgotten the date]: riptide_memory.html
-[be a father]: i-am.html
-[forever youth:]: about-the-author.html
-[the name becomes a Christ]: nothing-is-ever-over.html
-[Life rolls to death]: ouroboros_memory.html