From e0b1c2737397839ff5ba8c129d31baf6f97805fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:10:17 -0700 Subject: Finish linking Elegy, Hezekiah; Rename files --- spittle.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 spittle.txt (limited to 'spittle.txt') diff --git a/spittle.txt b/spittle.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e1a72e6 --- /dev/null +++ b/spittle.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: Spittle +genre: verse + +project: + title: Elegies for alternate selves + css: elegies + order: 22 + prev: + title: The shipwright + link: shipwright + next: + title: The squirrel + link: squirrel +... + +My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought. \ +When you turn away from me, my thought is broken \ +and forms anew with something else. Ideas are drool. \ +Beauty has been slobbered over far too long. [God][] \ +is a tidal wave of bodily fluid. Even the flea has some \ +vestigial wetness. We live in a world fleshy and dark, \ +and moist as a nostril. Is conciousness only a watery-eyed \ +romantic, crying softly into his [shirt-sleeve][]? Is not reason \ +a square-jawed businessman with a briefcase full of memory? \ +I want to kiss the world to make it mine. I want to become \ +a Judas to reality, betray it with the wetness of emotion. + +[God]: howithappened.html +[shirt-sleeve]: lovesong.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81