From ecda49e0b20ad3bd52449356dccf2f8095ecfb70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Case Duckworth
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:49:45 -0700
Subject: Flatten directory structure

All content files (*.txt, *.html, *.river) are now in /.
I did this to simplify the compilation step, and to make
linking easier.  I'm still thinking about whether I should
move the contents of js/, img/, and lua/ into /, or into
an 'assets' folder of some sort.  We'll see.
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 exasperated.txt | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 exasperated.txt

(limited to 'exasperated.txt')

diff --git a/exasperated.txt b/exasperated.txt
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index 0000000..67b3242
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+---
+title: Exasperated
+id: exasperated
+genre: verse
+
+project:
+    title: Stark Raving
+    class: stark
+    order: 8
+    next:
+    - title: The Death Zone
+      link: death-zone
+    - title: Boy on the bus
+      link: boy_bus
+    prev:
+    - title: AMBER alert
+      link: amber-alert
+    - title: The Death Zone
+      link: death-zone
+...
+
+I didn't write this sestina yesterday.  \
+It's the first time I fell behind in my task \
+and hopefully, the only time it will.  \
+This means that today I must write two \
+sestinas.  If I don't write them today, I \
+will have to write two later down the line.
+
+Although I feel I'm slogging through each line \
+I think I'm doing better every day, \
+though maybe this is wishful thinking: I \
+showed my friend my just-completed task \
+two days ago (my God, was it two \
+entire days?  I've no idea what I'll
+
+do [after thirty-nine days][].  I think I'll \
+feel like [Inigo Montoya][], who'd been in the line \
+of revenging for so long, he didn't know what to \
+do with the rest of his life), and he deigned \
+to be polite, but I could tell the task \
+was hard for him.  He told me finally that I
+
+had made a noble effort, but that ultimately I \
+failed.  [So my question][]: when will \
+I be a decent sestina writer?  For this is my task.  \
+Maybe if I just keep cranking out line after line \
+I'll finally figure it out.  Maybe one more day \
+or another week will do it, or maybe I'll need two,
+
+or maybe it'll never happen.  Maybe a sestina's too \
+involved, too much [weaving][] of words too fine, and I \
+will never write a good one, even on my best day, \
+even if I employ all my skill and all my will.  \
+I'm not used to writing poems with thirty-nine lines, \
+that must be the problem, must be why this task
+
+is Herculean.  He only had to finish twelve tasks, \
+and I have one less one thousand, five hundred twenty-two, \
+and it's nothing but complaining lines \
+about [how hard it is to be a person][].  I \
+am getting sick of myself with these poems, and will \
+soon be loathe to get out of bed every day.
+
+But I tasked myself with this, which may be the worst I \
+ever do to myself.  I thought a poem NaNoWriMo would \
+be fun, would line my resume, give me something I could publish someday.
+
+[after thirty-nine days]: http://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/11-24.htm
+[Inigo Montoya]: death-zone.html
+[So my question]: question.html
+[weaving]: tapestry.html
+[how hard it is to be a person]: deathstrumpet.html
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