<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- Template for compiled 'Autocento' documents --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> <!-- more meta tags here --> <title>Boy on the bus | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/common.css"> <script src="./js/lozenge.js"> </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/verse.css"> <script src="./js/verse.js"> </script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/stark.css"> <script src="./js/stark.js"> </script> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> <![endif]--> <!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> --> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">Boy on the bus</h1> </header> <section class="thing verse"> <p>When he said <a href="mountain.html">Bible</a> I heard his southern accent<br />and he had a face I expect all pastors must have<br />a round open honest face<br />that will always be a boy’s face<br />though its owner may rightly call himself a man<br />near my age though I hardly call myself a man</p> <p>I have seen this face before whether in life or a dream<br />I can’t tell<br />I might’ve seen him on the street once<br />twice who knows and his pastor’s <a href="moon-drowning.html">moon face</a><br />reminds me of something<br />some distant light my life used to own</p> <p><a href="in-bed.html">One night on my birthday the moon was so strong it cast shadows</a><br />I could see to the far hill and back it was all clear to me</p> <p>The moon hasn’t done that in a long time<br /><a href="moongone.html">its face has been obscured by clouds</a> for weeks<br />and that boy on the bus his face I’ve forgotten<br />I thought I recognized a good number of people<br />on that bus who I didn’t know at all</p> </section> <nav> <a class="prevlink" href="lappel-du-vide.html"> L’appel du vide </a> <a class="prevlink" href="exasperated.html"> Exasperated </a> <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="Random page"> ◊ </a> <a class="nextlink" href="i-think-its-you.html"> I think it’s you (but it’s not) </a> <a class="nextlink" href="last-bastion.html"> Last Bastion </a> </nav> </div> </body> </html>