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 --- 41-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt | 26 -------------------------- 1 file changed, 26 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 41-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt (limited to '41-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt') diff --git a/41-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt b/41-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt deleted file mode 100644 index fef8154..0000000 --- a/41-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: 'We played those games too' -project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' -... - -I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game \ -blowing on each other's' vocal chords to make music \ -on the tundra. I thought about how \ -once we played the same game \ -and the sounds blowing over the chords of our throats \ -was the same as a wind over frozen prairie. \ -We are the Eskimo girls who played \ -the game that night to keep ourselves warm. \ -I run my hands over my daughter's \ -voicebox as she hums a song \ -about a seal and about killing the seal and about \ -skinning it and rendering the blubber \ -into clear oil to light lamps. \ -I remember you are my lamp. She remembers \ -you although you left before she arrived. \ -I can never tell her about you. \ -I will never be able to express that taste of your oil \ -as we pushed our throats together. \ -I will never be able to say how \ -we share this blemish like conjoined twins. \ -I will fail you always to remember you. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81