From cb93d15fc0557bb5d6a68359f6294b1abbb8130e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2015 18:18:41 -0700 Subject: Add two more poems --- src/hard-game.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/real-writer.txt | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 63 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/hard-game.txt create mode 100644 src/real-writer.txt (limited to 'src') diff --git a/src/hard-game.txt b/src/hard-game.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04b316d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/hard-game.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +title: A hard game +genre: verse + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + css: autocento +... + +You think building Hoggle's a hard game? \ +You know bunk. Writing a ghazal's a hard game. + +Let's meet in a place where words & fabric play--- \ +but not plastic words. Boggle's a hard game. + +A cookout where we can hash our differences \ +over steak, though making it sizzle's a hard game. + +Let's go to a brothel, rub shoulders with bare \ +shoulders, or a bar. Being wastrel's a hard game. + +Maybe we could switch professions, you and I, \ +you write the poems, I'll puppet Fozzie - a hard game. + +When you call me, you never say my name. \ +Creativity's a hose---checking the nozzle's a hard game. diff --git a/src/real-writer.txt b/src/real-writer.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..12c2170 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/real-writer.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: A real writer +genre: verse + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + css: autocento +... + +Sometimes I feel as though I am not a real writer. \ +I don't smoke. I don't wake up early but I don't sleep \ +all day either. I find myself increasingly interested \ +in dumb luck. Chance: I've found two dimes in as many \ +days. Does this mean I've found twenty lucky pennies? \ +I want you to participate. You the reader. You, \ +the probabilistic god of my dreams. I've been having \ +strange dreams lately. I don't remember them but \ +they leave impressions. A bare foot. A tunnel \ +of hair from her face to mine. A boat stranded \ +in a living-room. Something warm. Something like the sun \ +through my eyelids. A hand, with all its dead symbology. \ +My teeth have fallen out. No, you pulled them out \ +with your hands, threw them over your left shoulder \ +like salt, to wish away bad luck. I have something \ +to tell you: bad luck follows like a dog. It lets you \ +get ahead for a few days, a week, a year. You'll see, \ +it'll bite your sleeping face when you're not looking. \ +I've been dreaming about the future, I know. In my dream \ +I am not a writer, I live in a place with rain. You \ +are sunning yourself as you read this, on a beach or \ +maybe a desert. Let me move in with you. I can cook \ +or clean or take care of your dog while you're out. \ +I'll never have to write again. I'll watch television. \ +Do I want to become a writer? Tell me. Should I smoke? \ +I can sleep all day in your attic if you want, become \ +your god, lose my own, settle to the bottom of the bed \ +like a boat in a river, dream about nothing but furniture. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81