From 43e2b69dfb0d37cce157ea78a35b47e54c85c7d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:13:08 -0700 Subject: Fix bad commit / other issues --- weplayedthosegamestoo.txt | 40 ---------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 40 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 weplayedthosegamestoo.txt (limited to 'weplayedthosegamestoo.txt') diff --git a/weplayedthosegamestoo.txt b/weplayedthosegamestoo.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e73dc75..0000000 --- a/weplayedthosegamestoo.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: We played those games too -genre: verse - -project: - title: Elegies for alternate selves - css: elegies - order: 25 - prev: - title: Telemarketer - link: telemarketer - next: - title: 'To Daniel: an elaboration' - link: todaniel -... - -I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game \ -blowing on each other's' vocal chords to make music \ -on the tundra. I thought about how \ -once we played the same game \ -and the sounds blowing over the chords of our throats \ -was the same as a wind over frozen prairie. \ -We are the Eskimo girls who played \ -the game that night to keep ourselves warm. \ -I run my hands over [my daughter][]'s \ -voicebox as she hums a song \ -about a seal and about killing the seal and about \ -skinning it and rendering the blubber \ -into clear oil to light lamps. \ -I remember you are my lamp. She remembers \ -you although you left before she arrived. \ -I can never tell her about you. \ -I will never be able to express that taste of your oil \ -as we [pushed our throats together][spittle]. \ -I will never be able to say how \ -we share this blemish like conjoined twins. \ -I will fail you always to remember you. - -[my daughter]: and.html -[spittle]: spittle.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81