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. --- sense-of-it.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 sense-of-it.txt (limited to 'sense-of-it.txt') diff --git a/sense-of-it.txt b/sense-of-it.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e21ea3c --- /dev/null +++ b/sense-of-it.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: Sense of it +id: sense-of-it +genre: verse + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + class: autocento +... + +I only write poems on [the bus][] anymore. \ +I sit far in the back to be alone. \ +I mark black things on white things in a black thing. \ +I try to make sense of it. + +Every time I see a plastic bag in the wind I think: \ +[This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.][] \ +Most of my life I relate to something on the TV: \ +This is how I try to make sense of it. + +The Talking Heads song ["Stop Making Sense"][stop] \ +is about a girlfriend caught cheating and willed oblivion. \ +The song's real title is "Girlfriend is Better" \ +but [lying][] about it is a way I try to make sense of it. + +The day after I lost her I found you again. \ +Your face made a plastic bag of my heart. \ +Your eyes were [the wind][] pushing the bus forward. \ +I couldn't make sense of it. + +[stop]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4 +[This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qssvnjj5Moo +[the wind]: cold-wind.html +[lying]: the-night-we-met.html +[the bus]: stagnant.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81