From 9fce418b46c9f0894f429384ef9e3dabaeffbeb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:36:17 -0700 Subject: Change file hierarchy and rewrite makefile - File hierarchy is now as follows: - / - appendix/ < appendix source files - backlinks/ < backlink sources & builds - hapax/ < *.hapax source files - scripts/ < scripts, like *.js, *.hs, etc. - templates/ < templates for outputs - text/ < source files - trunk/ < assets, like css, images, heads, etc. - index.html - *.html - Makefile --- text/apollo11.txt | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/apollo11.txt (limited to 'text/apollo11.txt') diff --git a/text/apollo11.txt b/text/apollo11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aef34dc --- /dev/null +++ b/text/apollo11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +title: On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site +genre: verse + +id: apollo11 +toc: "On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site" + +ekphrastic: + image: "panorama-apollo11.jpg" + title: "Big deal." + link: "http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap141220.html" + +project: + title: Elegies for alternate selves + class: elegies + order: 5 + next: + - title: Ars poetica + link: arspoetica + prev: + - title: And + link: and +... + +| So it's the [fucking moon][]. Big deal. As if +| you haven't seen it before, tacked to the sky +| like a [rotten hunk of meat][], a maudlin love + +| letter (the _i_s dotted with hearts) hung +| on the sky like ninety-eight theses. +| Don't stare at it like it means anything. + +| Walk past it quickly, eyes averted. +| Don't give it the chance to collect meaning +| from your [outstretched hand like a pigeon][]. + +| Ascribing it a will, calling it fickle, or +| thinking it has any say or even an opinion +| of your affairs is a mistake: it's separated + +| from you by three hundred eighty thousand miles +| of emptiness, staring at you blankly like a child +| or your reflection when you found your love broken + +| in the dark, when time fell apart, broke down, +| started following you around everywhere, [moonfaced][], +| doggedly asking where you're going, like you know. + +| Don't try side stepping time, either: it's only +| a river you're stuck in, [carrying you][] under the glare +| of the moon nuzzling closer, cooing in your ear + +| like a dove that escapes into the empty sky at dawn. + +[fucking moon]: deathstrumpet.html +[rotten hunk of meat]: roughgloves.html +[outstretched hand like a pigeon]: last-passenger.html +[moonfaced]: boy_bus.html +[carrying you]: music-433.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81