From dc5968ed003c08743d0f37ea81caa9a42a286434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:53:56 -0700 Subject: Add Stark Raving to src/ --- src/death-zone.txt | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 54 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/death-zone.txt (limited to 'src/death-zone.txt') diff --git a/src/death-zone.txt b/src/death-zone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a93ef0a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/death-zone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +--- +title: The Death Zone +genre: verse + +epigraph: + content: And my life became death. + attrib: Philip Gould + link: TODO + +project: + title: Stark Raving + css: stark + order: 7 + next: + - title: The Big Dipper + link: big-dipper + - title: Exasperated + link: exasperated + prev: + - title: Exasperated + link: exasperated + - title: AMBER alert + link: amber-alert +... + +![TODO] + +When I think of death I think \ +of Peter Falk in _The Princess Bride_ patting \ +his pockets as he leaves the room + +Life is a series of doors or so \ +they say but I ask them this \ +where does that last door lead? + +For Falk maybe it leads backstage \ +a black-walled catered affair with stage \ +lights slowly baking stale muffins + +Sweaty cheese leaking onto dried-out \ +grapes a chocolate fountain clogged \ +by some errant strawberry crown + +but this is not where it leads for you or \ +for me that door opens onto darkness marked \ +only by a trellis or the lid of a casket + +the door of the earth's womb opening \ +finally to accept us and with us the dirt \ +not to grow more strawberries for Falk + +but to pad his feet as he walks overhead \ +to visit someone he certainly cares about \ +but whose name is lost to posterity. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81