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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: I am | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: i-am | ||
| 6 | toc: "I am" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 9 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 10 | class: elegies | ||
| 11 | order: 13 | ||
| 12 | prev: | ||
| 13 | - title: On formal poetry | ||
| 14 | link: onformalpoetry | ||
| 15 | next: | ||
| 16 | - title: How it happened | ||
| 17 | link: howithappened | ||
| 18 | ... | ||
| 19 | |||
| 20 | | I am a great pillar of [white smoke][]. | ||
| 21 | | I am Lot's nameless wife encased in salt. | ||
| 22 | | I am the wound on Christ's back as he moans | ||
| 23 | | with the pounding of a hammer on his wrist. | ||
| 24 | | I am the nail that holds my house together. | ||
| 25 | | It is a strong house, built on a good foundation. | ||
| 26 | | In the winter, it is warm and crawling things | ||
| 27 | | cannot get in. This house will never burn down. | ||
| 28 | | It is the house that I built, with my body | ||
| 29 | | and with my strength. I am the only one who lives | ||
| 30 | | here. I am both father and mother to a race | ||
| 31 | | of [dust motes that worship me as a god][]. I have | ||
| 32 | | monuments built daily in my honor in dark | ||
| 33 | | corners around the house. I destroy all of them | ||
| 34 | | before I go to bed, but in the morning | ||
| 35 | | there are still more. I don't think I know | ||
| 36 | | where all of them are. I [don't think][not think] I can get | ||
| 37 | | to all of them anymore. There are too many. | ||
| 38 | |||
| 39 | [white smoke]: deathstrumpet.html | ||
| 40 | [not think]: howithappened.html | ||
| 41 | [dust motes that worship me as a god]: plant.html | ||