From cbd5199529209059be3bde0d6572a1ba192b84d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:22:15 -0700 Subject: Add Elegies; template; pandoc compile script --- 11-apollo11.txt | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 11-apollo11.txt (limited to '11-apollo11.txt') diff --git a/11-apollo11.txt b/11-apollo11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..07e9884 --- /dev/null +++ b/11-apollo11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: 'On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site' +project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' +... + +So it's the fucking moon. Big deal. As if \ +you haven't seen it before, hanging in the sky \ +like a piece of rotten meat nailed to the wall, + +a maudlin love letter (the i's dotted with hearts) \ +tacked to the sky's door like ninety-eight theses. \ +Don't stare at it like it means anything. + +Don't give it the chance to collect meaning \ +from your hand like an old pigeon. Don't dare ascribe \ +it a will, or call it fickle, or think it has any say + +in your affairs. It's separated from your life \ +by three hundred eighty-four thousand miles of space, \ +the same distance you stepped away from time that night + +you said your love was broken, a crippled gyroscope \ +knocking in the dark. It was then that time fell apart, \ +had a nervous breakdown and started following you + +everywhere, moonfaced, always asking where you're going. \ +You keep trying to get away from it but it nuzzles closer \ +and sings you songs that sound like the cooing of a dove \ +that will only escape again into an empty sky at dawn. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81