// note: this script is modified from a function originally written by Matt Latham of http://www.gigamatic.com. Mad props to Gigamatt!
var rbanner=new Array()
rbanner[0] = new Array(3)
rbanner[1] = new Array(3)
rbanner[2] = new Array(3)
rbanner[3] = new Array(3)
rbanner[4] = new Array(3)
rbanner[5] = new Array(3)
rbanner[6] = new Array(3)
rbanner[7] = new Array(3)
rbanner[8] = new Array(3)
rbanner[9] = new Array(3)
rbanner[10] = new Array(3)
rbanner[11] = new Array(3)
rbanner[12] = new Array(3)
rbanner[13] = new Array(3)
rbanner[14] = new Array(3)
rbanner[15] = new Array(3)
rbanner[16] = new Array(3)
rbanner[17] = new Array(3)
rbanner[18] = new Array(3)
rbanner[19] = new Array(3)
rbanner[20] = new Array(3)
rbanner[21] = new Array(3)
rbanner[22] = new Array(3)
rbanner[23] = new Array(3)
rbanner[24] = new Array(3)
rbanner[0][0] = "My little carry-on baggage,
my howler monkey, my blue-
eyed sleek beige passion"
rbanner[0][1] = "Marge Piercy"
rbanner[0][2] = "http://www.archer-books.com/Piercy/"
rbanner[1][0] = "Why does my life so often
feel like a slither of entrails
pouring from a wound in my belly?
With both hands I grasp
my wet guts, trying to force
them back in."
rbanner[1][1] = "Marge Piercy"
rbanner[1][2] = "http://www.archer-books.com/Piercy/"
rbanner[2][0] = "A strong woman is a woman in whose head
a voice is repeating, I told you so,
ugly, bad girl, bitch, nag, shrill, witch
ballbuster, nobody will ever love you back,
why aren't you more feminine, why aren't
you soft, why aren't you quiet, why
aren't you dead?"
rbanner[2][1] = "Marge Piercy"
rbanner[2][2] = "http://www.archer-books.com/Piercy/"
rbanner[3][0] = "you seethe and you bubble,
a veritable forest of tangles.
I wonder if I will ever get you straight."
rbanner[3][1] = "The Fish Head"
rbanner[3][2] = "/freeverse/fishhead.html"
rbanner[4][0] = "I've come to understand the nature of your perfume.
It is not about flowers
or music or ostrich feathers
but about sex, raw and trembling on the page."
rbanner[4][1] = "Megan's Poem"
rbanner[4][2] = "/freeverse/meganspoem.html"
rbanner[5][0] = "married life does not agree with me
I want to say, but the glow betrays me"
rbanner[5][1] = "Hunter's Moon"
rbanner[5][2] = "/freeverse/huntersmoon.html"
rbanner[6][0] = "There will always be someone with more,
you told yourself at four this morning,
newsprint on your fingertips"
rbanner[6][1] = "Two Weeks in the Belvedere Section"
rbanner[6][2] = "/freeverse/belvedere.html"
rbanner[7][0] = "Hekate hid her face.
On hands and knees,
I threw you to the ground and kissed you."
rbanner[7][1] = "New Moon Lover"
rbanner[7][2] = "/freeverse/newmoonlover.html"
rbanner[8][0] = "see that heal-all, that wasn't there
the slant of the sun through pines
warm air clasping us like a hand"
rbanner[8][1] = "Orienteering"
rbanner[8][2] = "/freeverse/orienteering.html"
rbanner[9][0] = "Missing you here is like missing you at home
but with the smell of the sea
and light all around me."
rbanner[9][1] = "Letters from Provincetown"
rbanner[9][2] = "/freeverse/lettersfromptown.html"
rbanner[10][0] = "ready to leave
but the curve of you next to me
is hard to abandon"
rbanner[10][1] = "Haiku - Love"
rbanner[10][2] = "/haiku/love.html"
rbanner[11][0] = "You find it disgusting.
You use this word with the certainty of one
sick of travelling in discomfort.
But I remember without remorse"
rbanner[11][1] = "Traveling Sickness"
rbanner[11][2] = "/freeverse/travellingsickness.html"
rbanner[12][0] = "I am waiting for my eyes to open.
I am waiting to take flight over the hills,
to see those hills from above like new,
and somehow remembered"
rbanner[12][1] = "The Wait"
rbanner[12][2] = "/freeverse/wait.html"
rbanner[13][0] = "while you lie into a lie
and people nod at the lie
so that it becomes the truth."
rbanner[13][1] = "She's full of pep and vigor"
rbanner[13][2] = "/freeverse/pepandvigor.html"
rbanner[14][0] = "Remember those moments in play when I
latched to your neck
and sucked, and sucked,
until I felt your essence rising, bright wine,
from the spot?
It was not play."
rbanner[14][1] = "What Remains"
rbanner[14][2] = "/freeverse/whatremains.html"
rbanner[15][0] = "You know best how to tell
of the five white butterflies that appeared above your bed,
in the Bronx,
in a fifth-floor
tenement apartment,
in the middle of a heat wave."
rbanner[15][1] = "The Five Truths"
rbanner[15][2] = "/freeverse/fivetruths.html"
rbanner[16][0] = "The miracle of the garbage truck this morning, the thin metal pieces that slide into the sleeves of the trash bin and lift it up, over the truck, and dump it in. What a marvel! A man-made miracle! Who thought of that, and why aren't they famous?"
rbanner[16][1] = "Miracle of the Garbage Truck"
rbanner[16][2] = "/prosies/20010330.html"
rbanner[17][0] = "with best intentions
you wake each morning to write
a soulful novel"
rbanner[17][1] = "Haiku - Work"
rbanner[17][2] = "/haiku/work.html"
rbanner[18][0] = "The egrets touch down.
One calls from the roof above
To her hunting mate"
rbanner[18][1] = "Haiku - Florida Keys"
rbanner[18][2] = "/haiku/floridakeys.html"
rbanner[19][0] = "I wish I could send to you
the bright blue sky of my body
cut loose from its moorings
not the empty snake skin,
or even the snake, but the concept,
the image, the buzzing within me
that has no words"
rbanner[19][1] = "The Map"
rbanner[19][2] = "/freeverse/themap.html"
rbanner[20][0] = "Aphrodite went down to the sea.
Astarte waxed and waned.
Brigid burned.
Even Diana, grand wild huntress, even she
lay down with Endymion in a cave.
I am just a woman, landlocked."
rbanner[20][1] = "The Well-Being of Women"
rbanner[20][2] = "/freeverse/wellbeingofwomen.html"
rbanner[21][0] = "You've been here before.
Again and again you've been here.
At the edge of the heath where the woods begin,
you seek this gorgon's shadow
and reach to her naked fingers,
begging for fruit. "
rbanner[21][1] = "Malecasta Repents"
rbanner[21][2] = "/freeverse/malecasta.html"
rbanner[22][0] = "She wakes
to find her bed full of snakes—
No, those are only rolls of fat
collecting about her—
No, that is only a nightmare."
rbanner[22][1] = "Shedding"
rbanner[22][2] = "/freeverse/shedding.html"
rbanner[23][0] = "What remains is only the thrum of the drums
and a deep understanding of what was said."
rbanner[23][1] = "A Map of the Interior"
rbanner[23][2] = "/freeverse/map-of-the-interior.html"
rbanner[24][0] = "When you put your hands inside my engine,
I trust that you will fix it.
But really what happens
is that we become a spectacle"
rbanner[24][1] = "When You Put Your Hands Inside It"
rbanner[24][2] = "/freeverse/putyourhands.html"
function printQuote() {
var randomize = Math.floor(Math.random()*rbanner.length) + 1
newQuote = rbanner[randomize-1][0]
newLinkText = rbanner[randomize - 1][1]
newLink = rbanner[randomize -1][2]
var display = "";
display += newQuote+"
";
display += "— "+newLinkText+"";
document.write(display)
}