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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: The Death Zone | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: death-zone | ||
| 6 | toc: "The death zone" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | epigraph: | ||
| 9 | content: And my life became death. | ||
| 10 | attrib: Philip Gould | ||
| 11 | link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death | ||
| 12 | |||
| 13 | ekphrastic: | ||
| 14 | image: gould.png | ||
| 15 | title: Philip Gould | ||
| 16 | link: 'http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2013/11/19/245996903/embracing-life-and-death' | ||
| 17 | |||
| 18 | project: | ||
| 19 | title: Stark Raving | ||
| 20 | class: stark | ||
| 21 | order: 7 | ||
| 22 | next: | ||
| 23 | - title: The Big Dipper | ||
| 24 | link: big-dipper | ||
| 25 | - title: Exasperated | ||
| 26 | link: exasperated | ||
| 27 | prev: | ||
| 28 | - title: Exasperated | ||
| 29 | link: exasperated | ||
| 30 | - title: AMBER alert | ||
| 31 | link: amber-alert | ||
| 32 | ... | ||
| 33 | |||
| 34 | | When I think of death I think | ||
| 35 | | of Peter Falk in _The Princess Bride_ patting | ||
| 36 | | [his pockets][] as he leaves the room | ||
| 37 | |||
| 38 | | Life is a series of doors or so | ||
| 39 | | they say but I ask them this | ||
| 40 | | where does that last door lead? | ||
| 41 | |||
| 42 | | For Falk maybe it leads backstage | ||
| 43 | | a black-walled catered affair with stage | ||
| 44 | | lights slowly baking stale muffins | ||
| 45 | |||
| 46 | | [Sweaty cheese][] leaking onto dried-out | ||
| 47 | | grapes a chocolate fountain clogged | ||
| 48 | | by some errant strawberry crown | ||
| 49 | |||
| 50 | | but this is not where it leads for you or | ||
| 51 | | for me that door opens onto darkness marked | ||
| 52 | | only by a trellis or the lid of a casket | ||
| 53 | |||
| 54 | | the door of the [earth's womb][] opening | ||
| 55 | | finally to accept us and with us the dirt | ||
| 56 | | not to grow more strawberries for Falk | ||
| 57 | |||
| 58 | | but to pad his feet as he walks overhead | ||
| 59 | | to visit someone he certainly cares about | ||
| 60 | | but whose name is lost to posterity. | ||
| 61 | |||
| 62 | [his pockets]: creation-myth.html | ||
| 63 | [Sweaty cheese]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html | ||
| 64 | [earth's womb]: about-the-author.html | ||