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/0 | 0 wip/apollo11.txt | 16 ++++++++++++++++ wip/backlink.sh | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ wip/deathstrumpet.txt | 9 +++++++++ wip/i-am.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ wip/makefile | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ wip/moongone.txt | 6 ++++++ 7 files changed, 127 insertions(+) create mode 100644 wip/0 create mode 100644 wip/apollo11.txt create mode 100644 wip/backlink.sh create mode 100644 wip/deathstrumpet.txt create mode 100644 wip/i-am.txt create mode 100644 wip/makefile create mode 100644 wip/moongone.txt (limited to 'wip') diff --git a/wip/0 b/wip/0 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 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, diff --git a/wip/backlink.sh b/wip/backlink.sh new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dfbfe4b --- /dev/null +++ b/wip/backlink.sh @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +#!/bin/bash + +# Variables +OPTIND=1 +header="" +blacklist="" + +while getopts "h:b:" opt; do + case "$opt" in + h) + header=$OPTARG + ;; + b) + blacklist=$OPTARG + ;; + esac +done + +shift $((OPTIND - 1)) + +echo "header = $header" +echo "blacklist = $blacklist" diff --git a/wip/deathstrumpet.txt b/wip/deathstrumpet.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e7edd43 --- /dev/null +++ b/wip/deathstrumpet.txt @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +He didn't have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing +until it gleamed like a tomato on the vine that was begging +to be picked and thrown on some caprese. Death loved caprese. + +He stood up to put the horn to his lips, trying to imagine +it was a woman he loved. He blushed as he realized how bad +the metaphor was. He practiced anyway for six hours a day +in front of the mirror---what else was there to do with time +that stretched like the mozzarella on Death's caprese? diff --git a/wip/i-am.txt b/wip/i-am.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f4727a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/wip/i-am.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +I am a great pillar of white smoke. +I am Lot's nameless wife turned to salt. + +I am the wound on Christ's back as he moans +with the pounding of a hammer on his wrist. + +I am the nail that holds his house together, +the long nail in his right wrist that points + +toward heaven. I am that nail and I am +the builder of the house, a strong house + +with a sound foundation. I am not the only +one who lives here. I am the god of + +a race of dust mites who build monuments +in my honor every day in the small dark + +corners of my house. I destroy each one +before I sleep each night. Every morning + +there are still more. I am unaware where +all of them are. There are too many. + +I am a god without a name in an empty house. +I am an open wound festering in the white sun. diff --git a/wip/makefile b/wip/makefile new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88ff6c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/wip/makefile @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +# MAKEFILE for Autocento of the breakfast table +# by Case Duckworth | case.duckworth@gmail.com | autocento.me +# inspired by Lincoln Mullen | lincolnmullen.com +# vim: fdm=marker + +# Define variables {{{ +srcs := $(wildcard *.txt) +trunk:= trunk +versifyer = $(trunk)/versify.exe +versifySrc= $(trunk)/versify.hs + +htmlBlackList = index.html template.html index-txt.html +htmls = $(filter-out $(htmlBlackList),$(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(srcs))) +htmlTemplate = template.html +htmlPandocOptions = --template=$(htmlTemplate) +htmlPandocOptions+= --filter=$(versifyer) +htmlPandocOptions+= --smart --mathml --section-divs + +backBlackList = "hapax.txt|first-lines.txt|common-titles.txt" +backSrcs = $(patsubst %.html,%.back,$(htmls)) +backs = $(patsubst %.back, %_backlinks.htm,$(backSrcs)) +backHead = $(trunk)/backlink.head + +hapaxBlackList = first-lines.txt common-titles.txt hapax.txt +hapaxs = $(patsubst %.txt,%.hapax,$(srcs)) +hapaxer = $(trunk)/hapax.lua +hapaxHead = $(trunk)/hapax.head +hapaxTemp = hapax.tmp +hapaxOut = hapax.txt + +lozengeOut = $(trunk)/lozenge.js +# }}} + +.PHONY: all +all: $(versifyer) htmls backlinks +.PHONY: htmls +htmls: $(htmls) +.PHONY: backlinks +backlinks: $(backs) + +$(versifyer): $(versifySrc) + ghc --make $(versifySrc) + +%.html: %.txt template.html $(versifyer) + pandoc $< -f markdown -t html5 $(htmlPandocOptions) -o $@ + +%_backlinks.htm: %.back + pandoc $< -f markdown -t html5 $(htmlPandocOptions) -o $@ diff --git a/wip/moongone.txt b/wip/moongone.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9168ff0 --- /dev/null +++ b/wip/moongone.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. +Looking at the night sky, the viewer sees only his own face as viewed from far away, surrounded by a vague landscape of mountains, the plain he's standing on, a river. +He sees he is alone in the wilderness. +He wonders in being alone. + +But behind him, the viewer sees a pursuer. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81