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/sense-of-it.txt | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/sense-of-it.txt (limited to 'src/sense-of-it.txt') diff --git a/src/sense-of-it.txt b/src/sense-of-it.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1be59e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/sense-of-it.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: Sense of it +genre: verse + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + css: autocento +... + +I only write poems on the bus anymore. \ +I sit far in the back to be alone. \ +I mark black things on white things in a black thing. \ +I try to make sense of it. + +Every time I see a plastic bag in the wind I think: \ +This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen. \ +Most of my life I relate to something on the TV: \ +This is how I try to make sense of it. + +The Talking Heads song ["Stop Making Sense"][stop] \ +is about a girlfriend caught cheating and willed oblivion. \ +The song's real title is "Girlfriend is Better" \ +but lying about it is a way I try to make sense of it. + +The day after I lost her I found you again. \ +Your face made a plastic bag of my heart. \ +Your eyes were the wind pushing the bus forward. \ +I couldn't make sense of it. + +[stop]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4 -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81