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/last-bastion.txt | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 59 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/last-bastion.txt (limited to 'text/last-bastion.txt') diff --git a/text/last-bastion.txt b/text/last-bastion.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..887f089 --- /dev/null +++ b/text/last-bastion.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +--- +title: Last bastion +genre: verse + +id: last-bastion +toc: "Last bastion" + +project: + title: Stark Raving + class: stark + order: 10 + next: + - title: AMBER alert + link: amber-alert + - title: Initial conditions + link: initial-conditions + prev: + - title: The Sixteenth Chapel + link: sixteenth-chapel.txt + - title: Boy on the bus + link: boy_bus +... + +| 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][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. + +| Years ago, the economy of the heart boomed +| 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 +| 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. +| People began dying, not of starvation +| but of a certain facial expression that could only +| 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][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