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2title: Sense of it
3genre: verse
4
5id: sense-of-it
6toc: "Sense of it"
7
8project:
9 title: Autocento of the breakfast table
10 class: autocento
11...
12
13| I only write poems on [the bus][] anymore.
14| I sit far in the back to be alone.
15| I mark black things on white things in a black thing.
16| I try to make sense of it.
17
18| Every time I see a plastic bag in the wind I think:
19| [This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.][]
20| Most of my life I relate to something on the TV:
21| This is how I try to make sense of it.
22
23| The Talking Heads song ["Stop Making Sense"][stop]
24| is about a girlfriend caught cheating and willed oblivion.
25| The song's real title is "Girlfriend is Better"
26| but [lying][] about it is a way I try to make sense of it.
27
28| The day after I lost her I found you again.
29| Your face made a plastic bag of my heart.
30| Your eyes were [the wind][] pushing the bus forward.
31| I couldn't make sense of it.
32
33[stop]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4
34[This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qssvnjj5Moo
35[the wind]: cold-wind.html
36[lying]: the-night-we-met.html
37[the bus]: stagnant.html