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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
3 | subtitle: index of first lines | ||
4 | genre: prose | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
8 | css: autocento | ||
9 | ... | ||
10 | |||
11 | [A dead man finds his way into our hearts](deadman.html) | ||
12 | [a dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk.](movingsideways.html) | ||
13 | [ART and CRAFT are only the inside and outside of the same building.](building.html) | ||
14 | [Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear:](angeltoabraham.html) | ||
15 | [after searching for days or even months](big-dipper.html) | ||
16 | [and you were there in the start of it all](and.html) | ||
17 | [apparently typewriters need ribbon.](tapestry.html) | ||
18 | [Bottom of the drink: they had](ex-machina.html) | ||
19 | [contents of the shed](paul.html). | ||
20 | |||
21 | ["Can one truly describe an emotion?" Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie.](statements-frag.html) | ||
22 | [Case Duckworth is the cowardly but lovable Great Dane who solves mysteries on TV.](about_author.html) | ||
23 | [Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle](last-bastion.html). | ||
24 | ["Do you have to say your thoughts out loud for them to mean anything" Paul asked Jill on his first coffee break at work.](question.html) | ||
25 | [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](planks.html). | ||
26 | [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](swear.html). | ||
27 | [God is love, they say, but there is](love-as-god.html) | ||
28 | [hymn 386: jokes](window.html). | ||
29 | |||
30 | [He builds a ship as if it were the last thing](shipwright.html) | ||
31 | [he chopped down: a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch.](sapling.html) | ||
32 | [He couldn't find a shirt to go to work in.](toothpaste.html) | ||
33 | [He didn't go back into the shed for a long time.](wallpaper.html) | ||
34 | [He didn't have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing,](deathstrumpet.html) | ||
35 | [he dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.](underwear.html) | ||
36 | [He is so full in himself:](squirrel.html) | ||
37 | [He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing.](hands.html) | ||
38 | [He said at the beginning, "It's like rolling yarn into a too-small ball.](ouroboros_memory.html)" | ||
39 | [He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping.](writing.html) | ||
40 | [He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack.](leaf.html) | ||
41 | [He walked into the woods for the first time in months.](stump.html) | ||
42 | [He was born on a few separate occasions: green traffic lights at night](about-the-author.html). | ||
43 | [He woke up after eleven and didn't go outside all day, not even to his Writing Shack.](cereal.html) | ||
44 | [He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break.](yellow.html) | ||
45 | [He wrote JOKES on the top of a page in his notebook.](joke.html) | ||
46 | |||
47 | ["Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me" the voice on the phone was a woman's.](phone.html) | ||
48 | [His first chair was a stool.](leg.html) | ||
49 | [His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday.](hardware.html) | ||
50 | [His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown.](fire.html) | ||
51 | |||
52 | ["How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, / and frightening that it does not quite," Jack Gilbert opens his poem "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart."](words-meaning.html) | ||
53 | [How does one describe a poem?](on-genre-dimension.html) | ||
54 | [I am a great pillar of white smoke.](i-am.html) | ||
55 | [I can walk through the rain, that rare occurrence](walking-in-the-rain.html). | ||
56 | [I didn't write this sestina yesterday.](exasperated.html) | ||
57 | [I don't care if they burn he wrote on his last blank notecard.](snow.html) | ||
58 | [I hear the rats run](in-bed.html). | ||
59 | [I lost my hands & knit replacement ones](roughgloves.html). | ||
60 | [I need a plant. I need a thing](plant.html). | ||
61 | [I only write poems on the bus anymore.](sense-of-it.html) | ||
62 | [I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.](epigraph.html) | ||
63 | [I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game](weplayedthosegamestoo.html) | ||
64 | [I think that I could write formal poems](onformalpoetry.html); | ||
65 | [I thought I saw you walking](i-think-its-you.html). | ||
66 | [I turned off the TV as soon as the end credits began.](dollywood.html) | ||
67 | |||
68 | [I want to say I take it all back](i-want-to-say.html), | ||
69 | [I wanted to tell you something in order to](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html)--- | ||
70 | [I was away on vacation when I heard---](howithappened.html) | ||
71 | [I wish I'd kissed you when I had the chance.](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html) | ||
72 | [I'm writing this now because I have to.](poetry-time.html) | ||
73 | [If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth](sixteenth-chapel.html)--- | ||
74 | [if you swallow hard enough](listen.html)--- | ||
75 | [importance is important.](philosophy.html) | ||
76 | [Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.](riptide_memory.html) | ||
77 | |||
78 | ["Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things" he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed.](father.html) | ||
79 | [It had gotten cold.](dream.html) | ||
80 | [It was a gamble](stayed-on-the-bus.html); | ||
81 | [it was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the street only if Larry craned his neck to almost vertical.](telemarketer.html) | ||
82 | [It's all jokes Paul wrote in what he was now calling his Hymnal.](hymnal.html) | ||
83 | [January.](january.html) | ||
84 | |||
85 | "[Like 40 as I challenge anyone to come too!](call-me-aural-pleasure.html) | ||
86 | [Look, I say---look here---](found-typewriter-poem.html) | ||
87 | [Lost things have a way of staying lost.](amber-alert.html)" | ||
88 | [Man of autumn, cold wind,](cold-wind.html) | ||
89 | [memory works strangely, spooling its thread](last-passenger.html). | ||
90 | |||
91 | ["My anger is like a peach," he said.](peaches.html) | ||
92 | "[My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought.](spittle.html)" | ||
93 | [My head is full of fire, my tongue swollen,](the-night-we-met.html) | ||
94 | [nothing is ever over; nothing](nothing-is-ever-over.html)--- | ||
95 | [nothing matters; everything is sacred.](proverbs.html) | ||
96 | [Now the ticking clocks scare me.](boar.html) | ||
97 | |||
98 | [Of course, there is a God.](prelude.html)--- | ||
99 | [Okay, so there either is or isn't a God.](purpose-dogs.html) | ||
100 | [On your desk I set a tangerine:](seasonal-affective-disorder.html) | ||
101 | [Paul began typing on notecards.](notes.html) | ||
102 | |||
103 | [Paul only did his reading on the toilet.](toilet.html) | ||
104 | [Paul took his axe and went out into the woods to chop trees.](axe.html) | ||
105 | [Paul was writing in his diary about art.](art.html) | ||
106 | |||
107 | ["Paul, you can't turn in your reports on four-by-six notecards" Jill told him after he handed her his reports, typed carefully on twelve four-by-six notecards.](reports.html) | ||
108 | ["Riding the bus to work is a good way to think or to read" Paul thought to himself on the bus ride to work.](stagnant.html) | ||
109 | |||
110 | [Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined](elegyforanalternateself.html): | ||
111 | [silence lies underneath us all in the same way](music-433.html) | ||
112 | [it's the fucking moon. Big deal. As if](apollo11.html) | ||
113 | [two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings](creation-myth.html) | ||
114 | [feel as though I am not a real writer.](real-writer.html) | ||
115 | [Somewhere I remember reading advice for beginning writers not to show their work to anyone, at least that in the early stages.](words-irritable-reaching.html) | ||
116 | |||
117 | [Swans fly overhead singing goodbye](swansong.html): | ||
118 | [THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES](man.html). | ||
119 | [TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE"](treatise.html): | ||
120 | [the definition of happiness is _doing stuff that you really like_.](likingthings.html) | ||
121 | [The look she gave me (Half-hours in heaven are three times that in hell)](table_contents.html). | ||
122 | [The moon is drowning the stars it pushes them](moon-drowning.html)--- | ||
123 | [The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. Looking at the night sky now](moongone.html), | ||
124 | [the other side of this mountain](mountain.html): | ||
125 | [the problem with people is this: we cannot be happy.](problems.html) | ||
126 | [The radio is screaming the man](worse-looking-over.html)--- | ||
127 | [the self is a serengeti](serengeti.html)--- | ||
128 | [there are more modern ideals of beauty](todaniel.html)--- | ||
129 | [there is a cave just outside of Flagstaff made from ancient lava flows.](what-we-are-made-of.html) | ||
130 | |||
131 | [There is a theory which states the Universe](initial-conditions.html), | ||
132 | [this book, is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be lived.](howtoread.html) | ||
133 | [This poem is dry like chapped lips.](swansong-alt.html) | ||
134 | [Tonight, as I look up, the stars](finding-the-lion.html), | ||
135 | [waiting for a reading to start](the-sea_the-beach.html), | ||
136 | [walking along in the dark, is a good way to begin a song.](lovesong.html) | ||
137 | |||
138 | [Walter rides the bus into work on Wednesday morning when he realizes, with the force and surprise of a rogue current, that he is in the home-for-death phase of life.](lappel-du-vide.html) | ||
139 | [We found your shirt deep in the dark water](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html)--- | ||
140 | [what did he do when he was in the woods?](options.html) | ||
141 | |||
142 | ["What do you do all day in that shed out back" his mother asked one night while they ate dinner in front of the TV.](shed.html) | ||
143 | |||
144 | [What is a poem?](manifesto_poetics.html) | ||
145 | [What is poetry?](arspoetica.html) | ||
146 | [What secrets does it hold?](largest-asteroid.html) | ||
147 | [When I think of death I think](death-zone.html), | ||
148 | [when Ronald McDonald takes off his striped shirt,](ronaldmcdonald.html) | ||
149 | [when he finally got back to work, he was surprised they threw him a party.](punch.html) | ||
150 | [When he said Bible I heard his southern accent](boy_bus.html): | ||
151 | [whenever you call me friend](100-lines.html) | ||
152 | [while chopping a tree in the woods with his hatchet (a Christmas gift from his mother) a bird he'd never heard before cried out.](x-ray.html) | ||
153 | [While swimming in the river](no-nothing.html): | ||
154 | [YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked.](early.html) | ||
155 | |||
156 | [You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life.](feedingtheraven.html) | ||
157 | [You think building Hoggle's a hard game?](hard-game.html) | ||
158 | [Your casserole dish takes the longest:](when-im-sorry-i.html) | ||
159 | [in mammals the ratio between bladder size](something-simple.html) | ||
160 | [has been a part of the Unix toolset since the late 70s.](collage-instrument.html) | ||
diff --git a/src/found-typewriter-poem.txt b/src/found-typewriter-poem.txt index 5d7af12..f6fd201 100644 --- a/src/found-typewriter-poem.txt +++ b/src/found-typewriter-poem.txt | |||
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15 | css: autocento | 15 | css: autocento |
16 | ... | 16 | ... |
17 | 17 | ||
18 | |||
19 | Look, I say---look here--- \ | 18 | Look, I say---look here--- \ |
20 | at this [old place \ | 19 | at this [old place \ |
21 | where nothing changes][old-place]. \ | 20 | where nothing changes][old-place]. \ |
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18 | link: stump | 18 | link: stump |
19 | ... | 19 | ... |
20 | 20 | ||
21 | |||
22 | > [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME][] | 21 | > [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME][] |
23 | > | 22 | > |
24 | > First, a history: I was writing my | 23 | > First, a history: I was writing my |