From 61baf210a9d0d4fffcd82751ba3419dd2feb349d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 16:29:46 -0700 Subject: Revise a few poems in Elegies Also add a .gitignore. How is this so late? --- wip/apollo11.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) create mode 100644 wip/apollo11.txt (limited to 'wip/apollo11.txt') diff --git a/wip/apollo11.txt b/wip/apollo11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c6ef3c --- /dev/null +++ b/wip/apollo11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +So it's the fucking moon. Big deal. As if +you haven't seen it before, tacked to the sky +like a piece of rotten meat, or a maudlin + +love letter (the _i_'s dotted neatly with hearts) +on the sky's door like the ninety-eight theses. + +Don't stare at it like it means anything. +Don't give it the chance to collect meaning +from your outstretched hand, like an old pigeon. + +Don't dare ascribe it a will, or call it fickle, +or think it has any say in your affairs. + +It's separated from you by three hundred and eighty +thousand miles of empty space, -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81