From e0b1c2737397839ff5ba8c129d31baf6f97805fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:10:17 -0700 Subject: Finish linking Elegy, Hezekiah; Rename files --- 21-i-am.txt | 28 ---------------------------- 1 file changed, 28 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 21-i-am.txt (limited to '21-i-am.txt') diff --git a/21-i-am.txt b/21-i-am.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8605f22..0000000 --- a/21-i-am.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: 'I am' -project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' -project-order: 21 -genre: 'verse' -... - -I am a great pillar of [white smoke][]. \ -I am Lot's nameless wife encased in salt. \ -I am the wound on Christ's back as he moans \ -with the pounding of a hammer on his wrist. \ -I am the nail that holds my house together. \ -It is a strong house, built on a good foundation. \ -In the winter, it is warm and crawling things \ -cannot get in. This house will never burn down. \ -It is the house that I built, with my body \ -and with my strength. I am the only one who lives \ -here. I am both father and mother to a race \ -of dust motes that worship me as a god. I have \ -monuments built daily in my honor in dark \ -corners around the house. I destroy all of them \ -before I go to bed, but in the morning \ -there are still more. I don't think I know \ -where all of them are. I [don't think][not think] I can get \ -to all of them anymore. There are too many. - -[white smoke]: deathstrumpet.html -[not think]: howithappened.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81