From ecda49e0b20ad3bd52449356dccf2f8095ecfb70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:49:45 -0700 Subject: Flatten directory structure All content files (*.txt, *.html, *.river) are now in /. I did this to simplify the compilation step, and to make linking easier. I'm still thinking about whether I should move the contents of js/, img/, and lua/ into /, or into an 'assets' folder of some sort. We'll see. --- 100-lines.txt | 126 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 126 insertions(+) create mode 100644 100-lines.txt (limited to '100-lines.txt') diff --git a/100-lines.txt b/100-lines.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e05b6d --- /dev/null +++ b/100-lines.txt @@ -0,0 +1,126 @@ +--- +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