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4.7 KiB
HTML
217 lines
4.7 KiB
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<html>
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<head>
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<title>Zk | 05</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css" />
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
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<meta charset="utf-8" />
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</head>
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<body>
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<main>
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<header>
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<h1>Zk | 05</h1>
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</header>
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<article class="content">
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<hr />
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<p>date: 2019-08-19
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weight: 5</p>
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<hr />
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<style>
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.row {
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display: block;
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vertical-align: top;
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}
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.col-md-4 {
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width: 30%;
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display: inline-block;
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vertical-align: top;
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padding: 0.5rem;
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}
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.text-right {
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text-align: right;
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}
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.col-md-8 {
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width: 60%;
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display: inline-block;
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vertical-align: top;
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padding: 0.5rem;
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}
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@media only screen and (max-width: 500px) {
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.col-md-4, .col-md-8 {
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width: 100%;
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display: block;
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}
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}
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</style>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-4 text-right">
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<h3>I</h3>
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<p><em>Geese Level:</em><br />
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Unnerving</p>
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<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
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Anxiety</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col-md-8 verse">
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A hundred geese overhead —
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A thousand —
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A million —
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Heady scent of premonition.
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Acrid tang of ill omens.
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Portents.
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Too much meaning
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In too small a space.
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-4 text-right">
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<h3>II</h3>
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<p><em>Geese Level:</em><br />
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Noise-Cancelling Headphones</p>
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<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
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auditory aberrations</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col-md-8 verse">
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Geese are a byproduct of laminar shear stress
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Of two layers of phantasmagorical
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Newtonian fluids,
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Which is why they’re often seen on a plane.
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A thin, sort-of Truth
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From a sort of thin layer
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geese chromatography.
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-4 text-right">
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<h3>III</h3>
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<p><em>Geese Level:</em><br />
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Eldrich</p>
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<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
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red tint to vision; hot flashes</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col-md-8 verse">
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As the dove bears the olive branch,
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so too the goose bears the wand
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that withers all it touches.
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A wand of nightshade,
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Core of tainted silver.
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A wand of obscure origin,
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The goose surely stole it.
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Malice begets malice.
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-4 text-right">
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<h3>IV</h3>
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<p><em>Geese Level:</em><br />
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Beyond Comprehension</p>
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<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
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confusion; nausea; sweating; racing pulse</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col-md-8 verse">
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We know not the transgression,
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the origin -
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We know not the punishment,
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only the terror.
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-4 text-right">
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<h3>V</h3>
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<p><em>Geese Level:</em><br />
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Excruciating</p>
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<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
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pounding heart; tunnel vision; racing thoughts; black outs;
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blood pouring from ears</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col-md-8 verse">
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Geas
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Wing
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Dark
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Horizon
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-4 text-right">
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<h3>VI</h3>
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<p><em>Geese Level:</em><br />
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Terrifying</p>
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<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
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tinnitus; piloerection; shortness of breath; uneven gait</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col-md-8 verse">
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I’d rather owls.
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Owls, as though geese were turned inside out,
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made less evil.
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Still portentous,
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Still momentous,
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Just less terrifying.
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Owls are okay.
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I can think about owls.
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-4 text-right">
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<h3>VII</h3>
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<p><em>Geese Level:</em><br />
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Uncomfortable</p>
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<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
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subdermal itching; formication</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col-md-8 verse">
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Life within a comfortable grid.
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Parallel lines
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Interrupting narrowing circles
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Of birds in flight.
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Travel in straight lines.
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Turn at right angles.
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Trace the roof of your mouth
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With wet tongue.
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I’m not afraid of geese anymore
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Because I can step on them now.
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I’m big enough.
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</div>
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</div>
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<div class="row">
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<div class="col-md-4 text-right">
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<h3>VIII</h3>
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<p><em>Geese Level:</em><br />
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Birds</p>
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<p><em>Expect:</em><br />
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birds</p>
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</div>
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<div class="col-md-8 verse">
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Ritual thinking
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Driven by geese —
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By lines, by grids, by food —
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By numbers and neat delineation.
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And I’m left with questions:
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Why the portents?
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Why the anxiety?
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Or maybe:
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Did I take my meds this morning?
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Failing that,
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Can I just have the comfort of prayer
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Or the ecstasy of signs
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Without bleak paranoia
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Over circling birds?
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</div>
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</div>
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</article>
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<footer>
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<p>Page generated on 2020-04-24</p>
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</footer>
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</main>
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</body>
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</html>
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