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 --- 22-i-am.txt | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 22-i-am.txt (limited to '22-i-am.txt') diff --git a/22-i-am.txt b/22-i-am.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..da36507 --- /dev/null +++ b/22-i-am.txt @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: 'I am' +project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' +... + +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 I can get \ +to all of them anymore. There are too many. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81