From b5f04621a188ffd07463d66c233601a32e970f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 16:46:17 -0700 Subject: First complete src/ linking complete --- src/last-bastion.txt | 32 +++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/last-bastion.txt') diff --git a/src/last-bastion.txt b/src/last-bastion.txt index 9dbe3bf..5b20c23 100644 --- a/src/last-bastion.txt +++ b/src/last-bastion.txt @@ -19,32 +19,38 @@ project: ... 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, what was left of it. \ +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. +for something they pray the [rats][] haven't found yet. Years ago, the economy of the heart boomed \ -and there was food everywhere. Produce \ +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 \ +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. \ +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 \ +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 blown dry by wind. +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 +[mythical river]: music-433.html +[heart]: sense-of-it.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81