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/no-nothing.txt | 60 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/no-nothing.txt (limited to 'src/no-nothing.txt') diff --git a/src/no-nothing.txt b/src/no-nothing.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e81d70b --- /dev/null +++ b/src/no-nothing.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +--- +title: No nothing +genre: verse + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + css: autocento +... + +| While swimming in the river +| I saw underneath it a river +| of stars. Only there was no +| river: it was noon. You can +| say the sun is a river; you +| can argue the stars back it +| like shirts behind a closet +| door; you can say the earth +| holds us up with its weight +| or that it means well or it +| means anything. +| There is no +| closet, nor door; there are +| no shirts hanging anywhere. +| There is no false wall that +| leads deep into the earth's +| bowels, growing warmer with +| each step. Warmth as a con- +| cept has ceased to make any +| sense. In contraposition to +| cold, it might, but cold as +| well stepped out last night +| and hasn't returned. +| Last I +| heard, it went out swimming +| and might've drowned. Trees +| were the pallbearers at the +| funeral, the train was long +| and wailful, there was much +| wailing and gnashing of all +| teeth--though there were no +| teeth, no train, no funeral +| or prayer or trees at all-- +| nor a river underneath any- +| thing. There was nothing to +| be underneath anymore. +| Look +| around, and tell me you see +| something. Look around, and +| tell me something that I do +| not know. I know, more than +| anything, that the world is +| always ending. Behind that, +| there is nothing, save that +| there is no nothing either. +| +| Nothing somehow still turns +| and flows past us, past all +| time and beyond it, a river +| returning, to its forgotten +| origins deep within itself. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81