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+title: The boar
+genre: verse
+
+id: boar
+toc: "The boar"
+
+project:
+    title: Elegies for alternate selves
+    class: elegies
+    order: 8
+    prev:
+    - title: The ocean overflows with camels
+      link: theoceanoverflowswithcamels
+    next:
+    - title: Dead man
+      link: deadman
+...
+
+| Now the ticking clocks scare me.
+| The [empty][] rooms, clock towers, belfries;
+| I am terrified by them all.
+
+| I really used to enjoy going to church,
+| singing in the choir, listening to the sermon.
+| Now the chairs squeal like dying pigs---
+
+| It was the boar that did it.
+| [Fifteen feet][] from me that night
+| in the grass, rooting for God
+| knows what, finding me instead.
+
+| I ran, not knowing where or how,
+| not looking for his pursuit of me.
+| I ran to God's front door, found
+| it locked, found the [house][] empty
+
+| with a note saying, "Condemned."
+
+[empty]: mountain.html
+[Fifteen feet]: telemarketer.html
+[house]: i-am.html