From f00d869e4c0e64be6093e4980e62e3c9b9b33cc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 10:36:44 -0700 Subject: Add links to Elegies; write TODO.txt --- 11-apollo11.txt | 29 ----------------------------- 1 file changed, 29 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 11-apollo11.txt (limited to '11-apollo11.txt') diff --git a/11-apollo11.txt b/11-apollo11.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 07e9884..0000000 --- a/11-apollo11.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ ---- -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