<!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>Spittle | 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]--> </head> <body> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">Spittle</h1> </header> <section class="thing verse"> <p>My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought.<br />When you turn away from me, my thought is broken<br />and forms anew with something else. Ideas are drool.<br />Beauty has been slobbered over far too long. <a href="howithappened.html">God</a><br />is a tidal wave of bodily fluid. Even the flea has some<br />vestigial wetness. We live in a world fleshy and dark,<br />and moist as a nostril. Is conciousness only a watery-eyed<br />romantic, crying softly into his <a href="lovesong.html">shirt-sleeve</a>? Is not reason<br />a square-jawed businessman with a briefcase full of memory?<br />I want to kiss the world to make it mine. I want to become<br />a Judas to reality, betray it with the wetness of emotion.</p> </section> <nav> <a class="prevlink" href="shipwright.html"> The shipwright </a> <a href="#" id="lozenge"> ◊ </a> <a class="nextlink" href="squirrel.html"> The squirrel </a> </nav> </body> </html>