From 3ec50c15dbbc8725271d707a33064002ad64a33e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 17:52:37 -0700 Subject: Add poems from the past year --- src/ex-machina.txt | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/ex-machina.txt (limited to 'src/ex-machina.txt') diff --git a/src/ex-machina.txt b/src/ex-machina.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..131b4b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/ex-machina.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +title: Ex machina +genre: verse + +epigraph: + content: with lines from National Geographic + link: 'http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/08/sugar/cohen-text' + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + css: autocento +... + +Bottom of the drink: they had \ +to go. The Coke machine, the snack \ +machine, the deep fryer. Hoisted + +and dragged through the halls \ +and out to the curb, they sat with \ +other trash beneath gray, forlorn + +skies behind the elementary \ +school, wondering what their next \ +move would be. The Coke machine + +had always wanted to live \ +the life of a hobo, jumping trains, \ +eating from garbage, making fire + +in old oil drums. It had some \ +strange romantic notions of being homeless, \ +is what the deep fryer thought. + +Its opinion was to head to court, \ +sue the bastards at the school for early \ +termination of contract. It was + +the embodiment of justifiable anger. \ +It believed privately that it was an incarnation \ +of Nemesis, the goddess of divine + +retribution. What the snack machine \ +thought, it kept to itself, but it did say \ +that nothing ever ends. The others + +were confused, then angry, but finally \ +understood, or thought they did. The snack \ +machine's candy melted in the sun. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81