From 43e2b69dfb0d37cce157ea78a35b47e54c85c7d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:13:08 -0700 Subject: Fix bad commit / other issues --- apollo11.txt | 44 -------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 44 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 apollo11.txt (limited to 'apollo11.txt') diff --git a/apollo11.txt b/apollo11.txt deleted file mode 100644 index a72aaab..0000000 --- a/apollo11.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,44 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site -genre: verse - -project: - title: Elegies for alternate selves - css: elegies - order: 5 - next: - title: Ars poetica - link: arspoetica - prev: - title: And - link: and -... - -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. - -[fucking moon]: deathstrumpet.html -[rotten meat]: roughgloves.html -[hearts]: proverbs.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81