<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- Template for compiled 'Autocento' documents --> <html> <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>Dead man | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/common.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/verse.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./css/elegies.css"> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> <![endif]--> <script src="./js/lozenge.js"> </script> <!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> --> </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">Dead man</h1> </header> <section class="thing verse"> <p>A dead man finds his way into our <a href="words-meaning.html">hearts</a><br />simply by opening the door and walking in.<br />He pours himself a drink, speaks aimlessly<br />about hunting or some bats he saw<br />on the way over, wheeling around each other.<br />Look how <a href="moongone.html">they spin</a>, he says, it’s like the<br />ripples atoms make as they hurl past each other<br />in the space between their bodies.<br />We mention the eels at the aquarium, how<br />their bodies <a href="spittle.html">knot while mating</a>. The dead man<br />was a boyscout once, and tied a lot of knots.<br />His favorite was the one with the rabbit<br />and the hole, and the rabbit going in and out<br />and around the tree. The dead man liked it<br />because he liked to pretend that the rabbit<br />was running from a fox, and the rabbit<br />always ended up safe, back in his hole.</p> </section> <nav> <a class="prevlink" href="boar.html"> The boar </a> <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="Random page"> ◊ </a> <a class="nextlink" href="angeltoabraham.html"> The angel to Abraham </a> </nav> </div> </body> </html>