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/sense-of-it.txt | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/sense-of-it.txt (limited to 'text/sense-of-it.txt') diff --git a/text/sense-of-it.txt b/text/sense-of-it.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0868f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/text/sense-of-it.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: Sense of it +genre: verse + +id: sense-of-it +toc: "Sense of it" + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + class: 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 +[This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qssvnjj5Moo +[the wind]: cold-wind.html +[lying]: the-night-we-met.html +[the bus]: stagnant.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81