<!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>Sense of it | 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="sense-of-it" class="autocento"> <article class="container"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">Sense of it</h1> <div class="header-extra"> </div> </header> <section class="content verse"> <p><span class="line">I only write poems on <a href="stagnant.html">the bus</a> anymore.</span><span class="line">I sit far in the back to be alone.</span><span class="line">I mark black things on white things in a black thing.</span><span class="line">I try to make sense of it.</span></p> <p><span class="line">Every time I see a plastic bag in the wind I think:</span><span class="line"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qssvnjj5Moo">This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.</a></span><span class="line">Most of my life I relate to something on the TV:</span><span class="line">This is how I try to make sense of it.</span></p> <p><span class="line">The Talking Heads song <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7X3f2gFz4">“Stop Making Sense”</a></span><span class="line">is about a girlfriend caught cheating and willed oblivion.</span><span class="line">The song’s real title is “Girlfriend is Better”</span><span class="line">but <a href="the-night-we-met.html">lying</a> about it is a way I try to make sense of it.</span></p> <p><span class="line">The day after I lost her I found you again.</span><span class="line">Your face made a plastic bag of my heart.</span><span class="line">Your eyes were <a href="cold-wind.html">the wind</a> pushing the bus forward.</span><span class="line">I couldn’t make sense of it.</span></p> </section> </article> <nav> <div class="anchors"> <a href="backlinks/sense-of-it.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> </nav> </body> </html>