From 3b37989606c44902d90a3723e197d8c318a302bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:47:42 -0700 Subject: Change verse lines '$' -> '^| ' --- last-bastion.txt | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) (limited to 'last-bastion.txt') diff --git a/last-bastion.txt b/last-bastion.txt index ebb0350..858041f 100644 --- a/last-bastion.txt +++ b/last-bastion.txt @@ -19,37 +19,37 @@ project: link: boy_bus ... -Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle \ -down the cold and darkened highways of the heart. \ -They are the last personality left. They are [the meek \ -who inherited the heart][meek], what was left of it.\ +| Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle +| down the cold and darkened highways of the heart. +| They are the last personality left. They are [the meek +| who inherited the heart][meek], what was left of it.\ -Without food to cook in new or exciting ways \ -nor audience to gasp and cackle, the chefs \ -of the heart quietly waste away while staring \ -doe-eyed into now-empty Safeway windows \ -checking under the dusty produce shelves \ -for something they pray the [rats][] haven't found yet. +| Without food to cook in new or exciting ways +| nor audience to gasp and cackle, the chefs +| of the heart quietly waste away while staring +| doe-eyed into now-empty Safeway windows +| checking under the dusty produce shelves +| for something they pray the [rats][] haven't found yet. -Years ago, the economy of the heart boomed \ -and there was food everywhere. Produce \ -piled high in pyramids of devotion, meat in \ -gilded glass cases opulent under fluorescence, \ -dairy which ran like the [mythical river][] toward \ -cereals hot and cold. Under it all, thrumming \ -like great stone wheels on sand under a hot sun \ -near a river where reeds sang in the wind \ -the heart produced and gave reward for hard labor. +| Years ago, the economy of the heart boomed +| and there was food everywhere. Produce +| piled high in pyramids of devotion, meat in +| gilded glass cases opulent under fluorescence, +| dairy which ran like the [mythical river][] toward +| cereals hot and cold. Under it all, thrumming +| like great stone wheels on sand under a hot sun +| near a river where reeds sang in the wind +| the heart produced and gave reward for hard labor. -No one knows when it all ended. No one can say \ -if it was the heart that dried up or the heart's supply. \ -Either way, food of the heart became scarcer and scarcer. \ -People began dying, not of starvation \ -but of a certain facial expression that could only \ -be described as desperation. Now \ -all that are left are the celebrity chefs, last bastion \ -of a once mighty empire of the [heart \ -are reduced to husks][heart] blown dry by wind. +| No one knows when it all ended. No one can say +| if it was the heart that dried up or the heart's supply. +| Either way, food of the heart became scarcer and scarcer. +| People began dying, not of starvation +| but of a certain facial expression that could only +| be described as desperation. Now +| all that are left are the celebrity chefs, last bastion +| of a once mighty empire of the [heart +| are reduced to husks][heart] blown dry by wind. [meek]: http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-5.htm [rats]: in-bed.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81