From 529ede146afd125c76d86eb55969983af8ee21db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 23:58:22 -0700 Subject: Some revision & TOC inclusion --- 100-lines.txt | 126 ---------------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 126 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 100-lines.txt (limited to '100-lines.txt') diff --git a/100-lines.txt b/100-lines.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e16a5aa..0000000 --- a/100-lines.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,126 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: 100 lines -id: 100-lines -genre: verse - -project: - title: Autocento of the breakfast table - class: autocento -... - -| Whenever you call me friend -| I fall down on my knees and cry -| because I know it's the only thing -| never to happen before in this -| life is something you can't see -| it's a pillow under a [hook shot][] -| [I want to tell you something anything][tell-you] -| but you are there and I am here -| we are [trapped inside ourselves][trapped] -| and the distance is too far -| you are something that I would tell -| [would be nothing][] before too long -| you are not the finisher of dreams -| you are the beginning of [nightmares][] -| or waking but I'm not sure which -| this [letter is for you][] in the future -| it will lead you on the path -| of goodness or of rightness or of -| wrong people and right meanings -| or the meaning will be hidden -| or wrestling the demon I will have become -| restless under the starlight -| it's too bright here to think -| the negatives would be pitch black -| darkness of a silver mine -| there are [no trees][] here -| where have you been where are you now -| I am no longer here or there -| you are anywhere or are you -| up in the clouds is a ghost -| he is white and blue like a cloud -| he paints with his teeth -| he paints the rainbow before midnight -| that you can see from your window -| staring out under the sunlight -| through the gauze curtains -| [over the high mountain][mountain] far away -| that is covered over with snow -| past the rivers and forests -| that lie awake under Orion -| hunting the bull that runs forever -| just out of his reach -| pointing the way for the two of us -| to join together in song or dance -| or that other thing and sing -| the Grinch down off Mount Crumpet -| [his heart breaking his chest][heart] -| thumping with the beat -| his [little dog too][] running running -| with the bull full of laughter and blood -| he can't see it anymore because it's become him -| we are trapped he says we are -| trapped in ourselves it turns out -| that all along it wasn't you or me -| but he and her or her and him or -| he and he or she and she or they -| even they tell us that nothing has happened -| even they know that it's a big joke -| one more thing to know before the death -| we are crying like crocodiles -| before their loved ones' coffins -| we are bellowing with grief like buffalo -| on a berth of wild oxen -| we are wailing our clothes are in rags -| [we want][want1] [we want][want2] [we want][want3] -| but never can we get -| what is it -| we don't know what it is -| but it's something it's anything -| it's too many people or not enough -| it's too few trees we need more -| beavers to build riverdams we need -| grapes too or [plums][] from the ice box -| or an ice box even would be nice -| all I have is this cube isn't that right -| or is a sphere a cube a donut a coffee -| cup your hands in mine yes that's right -| now bring the water to your face -| clear and cool and -| full of something -| what is it wanting -| or yearning -| I can see in your eyes they're clear now -| they are as clear as a running stream -| or the sky that's clear right -| or the water that is in the Bahamas -| because I hear that's clear -| you're as clear as the sound of a bell -| you're as clear as the [braying of horses][] -| you're as clear as the glass in God's eye -| and I -| I'm as dull as an ox plowing -| [through fields in his yoke][yoke] -| I'm as dull as clouded amber -| I'm dull as you find me -| tonight after dinner -| I'm reading the crossword -| you're sitting beside me -| you're watching TV. - -[hook shot]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html -[tell-you]: lovesong.html -[trapped]: howtoread.html -[would be nothing]: no-nothing.html -[nightmares]: in-bed.html -[letter is for you]: poetry-time.html -[no trees]: plant.html -[mountain]: mountain.html -[heart]: moon-drowning.html -[little dog too]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUpxmlZ2hyM -[want1]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html -[want2]: fire.html -[want3]: lovesong.html -[plums]: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/245576 -[braying of horses]: table_contents.html -[yoke]: last-passenger.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81