<!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>Worse looking over | 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/stark.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">Worse looking over</h1> </header> <section class="thing verse"> <p><a href="moon-drowning.html">The radio is screaming the man</a><br />on the radio will not be quiet he is<br />pushed far into the background<br />while some NPR talkers murmur over<br />his screaming he lost something<br />very important. He says it over<br />and over but they do not listen<br />they think of their children at home<br />lying <a href="in-bed.html">in bed</a> dreaming sweet<br />childhood one of them is staying over<br />at a friend’s house they are staying<br />up late they never want it to be over<br />not like the man. His life on the radio<br />will be the only one he ever has<br />his life it is wasted he’s being spoken over<br />such pain is in his voice. I wish you<br />could hear it. <a href="nothing-is-ever-over.html">It’s something never over</a>.<br />Suffering everywhere always and over it<br />the same serene murmur of the comfortable<br />distracted or worse looking over<br />the <a href="last-passenger.html">shoulder</a> and quietly looking away.</p> </section> <nav> <a class="prevlink" href="love-as-god.html"> Love as God </a> <a class="prevlink" href="moon-drowning.html"> The moon is drowning </a> <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="Random page"> ◊ </a> <a class="nextlink" href="sixteenth-chapel.html"> The Sixteenth Chapel </a> <a class="nextlink" href="poetry-time.html"> Something about the nature of poetry and time </a> </nav> </div> </body> </html>