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/one-hundred-lines.txt | 128 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 128 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/one-hundred-lines.txt (limited to 'text/one-hundred-lines.txt') diff --git a/text/one-hundred-lines.txt b/text/one-hundred-lines.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..758a1e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/text/one-hundred-lines.txt @@ -0,0 +1,128 @@ +--- +title: One hundred lines +genre: verse + +id: one-hundred-lines +toc: "100 lines" + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + class: autocento +... + +| Whenever you call me friend +| I fall down on my knees and cry +| because I know it's the only thing +| never to happen before in this +| life is something you can't see +| it's a pillow under a [hook shot][] +| [I want to tell you something anything][tell-you] +| but you are there and I am here +| we are [trapped inside ourselves][trapped] +| and the distance is too far +| you are something that I would tell +| [would be nothing][] before too long +| you are not the finisher of dreams +| you are the beginning of [nightmares][] +| or waking but I'm not sure which +| this [letter is for you][] in the future +| it will lead you on the path +| of goodness or of rightness or of +| wrong people and right meanings +| or the meaning will be hidden +| or wrestling the demon I will have become +| restless under the starlight +| it's too bright here to think +| the negatives would be pitch black +| darkness of a silver mine +| there are [no trees][] here +| where have you been where are you now +| I am no longer here or there +| you are anywhere or are you +| up in the clouds is a ghost +| he is white and blue like a cloud +| he paints with his teeth +| he paints the rainbow before midnight +| that you can see from your window +| staring out under the sunlight +| through the gauze curtains +| [over the high mountain][mountain] far away +| that is covered over with snow +| past the rivers and forests +| that lie awake under Orion +| hunting the bull that runs forever +| just out of his reach +| pointing the way for the two of us +| to join together in song or dance +| or that other thing and sing +| the Grinch down off Mount Crumpet +| [his heart breaking his chest][heart] +| thumping with the beat +| his [little dog too][] running running +| with the bull full of laughter and blood +| he can't see it anymore because it's become him +| we are trapped he says we are +| trapped in ourselves it turns out +| that all along it wasn't you or me +| but he and her or her and him or +| he and he or she and she or they +| even they tell us that nothing has happened +| even they know that it's a big joke +| one more thing to know before the death +| we are crying like crocodiles +| before their loved ones' coffins +| we are bellowing with grief like buffalo +| on a berth of wild oxen +| we are wailing our clothes are in rags +| [we want][want1] [we want][want2] [we want][want3] +| but never can we get +| what is it +| we don't know what it is +| but it's something it's anything +| it's too many people or not enough +| it's too few trees we need more +| beavers to build riverdams we need +| grapes too or [plums][] from the ice box +| or an ice box even would be nice +| all I have is this cube isn't that right +| or is a sphere a cube a donut a coffee +| cup your hands in mine yes that's right +| now bring the water to your face +| clear and cool and +| full of something +| what is it wanting +| or yearning +| I can see in your eyes they're clear now +| they are as clear as a running stream +| or the sky that's clear right +| or the water that is in the Bahamas +| because I hear that's clear +| you're as clear as the sound of a bell +| you're as clear as the [braying of horses][] +| you're as clear as the glass in God's eye +| and I +| I'm as dull as an ox plowing +| [through fields in his yoke][yoke] +| I'm as dull as clouded amber +| I'm dull as you find me +| tonight after dinner +| I'm reading the crossword +| you're sitting beside me +| you're watching TV. + +[hook shot]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html +[tell-you]: lovesong.html +[trapped]: howtoread.html +[would be nothing]: no-nothing.html +[nightmares]: in-bed.html +[letter is for you]: poetry-time.html +[no trees]: plant.html +[mountain]: mountain.html +[heart]: moon-drowning.html +[little dog too]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUpxmlZ2hyM +[want1]: i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html +[want2]: fire.html +[want3]: lovesong.html +[plums]: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/245576 +[braying of horses]: table_contents.html +[yoke]: last-passenger.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81