<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> <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"> <title>How it happened | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="trunk/style.css"> <script src="scripts/randomize.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script src="scripts/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> <![endif]--> </head> <body id="howithappened" class="elegies"> <article class="container"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">How it happened</h1> <div class="header-extra"> </div> </header> <section class="content verse"> <p><span class="line">I was away on vacation when I heard—</span><span class="line">someone sat at my desk while I was away.</span><span class="line">They took my pen, while I was taking</span><span class="line">surf lessons, and wrote the sun into the sky.</span><span class="line">They pre-approved the earth and the waters,</span><span class="line">and all of the living things, without even</span><span class="line">having the decency to text me. It was not I</span><span class="line">who was behind the phrase “creeping things.”</span><span class="line">When I got back, of course I was pissed,</span><span class="line">but it was <a href="shipwright.html">already written</a> into the policy.</span><span class="line">I’m just saying: don’t blame me for Cain</span><span class="line">killing Abel. That was a murder. I’m not a cop.</span><span class="line">The Tower of Babel fell on its own. The ark</span><span class="line">never saw a single drop of rain. I’m <a href="problems.html">the drunk</a></span><span class="line">sitting on the curb who just pissed his pants,</span><span class="line">holding up a sign asking where I am.</span></p> </section> </article> <a id="textlink" title="Source file" href="text/howithappened.txt">¶</a> <nav> <div class="anchors"> <a href="backlinks/howithappened.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page"> φ </a> <a href="index.html" id="coverlink" title="To cover">◊</a> <a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">ξ</a> </div> <a class="prevlink" href="i-am.html" title="Previous article in Elegies for alternate selves"> I am </a> <a class="nextlink" href="lovesong.html" title="Next article in Elegies for alternate selves"> Love Song </a> </nav> </body> </html>