---
title: The boar
genre: verse

project:
    title: Elegies for alternate selves
    css: elegies
    order: 8
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      link: deadman
...

Now the ticking clocks scare me.  \
The [empty][] rooms, clock towers, belfries; \
I am terrified by them all.

I really used to enjoy going to church, \
singing in the choir, listening to the sermon.  \
Now the chairs squeal like dying pigs---

It was the boar that did it.  \
[Fifteen feet][] from me that night \
in the grass, rooting for God \
knows what, finding me instead.

I ran, not knowing where or how, \
not looking for his pursuit of me.  \
I ran to God's front door, found \
it locked, found the [house][] empty

with a note saying, "Condemned."

[empty]: mountain.html
[Fifteen feet]: telemarketer.html
[house]: i-am.html