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2title: 'Swansong'
3subtitle: 'alternate version'
4project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
5...
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7This poem is dry like chapped lips. \
8It is hard as teeth---hear the tapping? \
9It is the swan song of beauty, as all \
10swan songs are. Reading it, you are \
11puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed. \
12Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing. \
13A honking over the cliff is all \
14they can do, and that they do \
15badly. You don't know where I'm going. \
16You want to tell me, You are not you. \
17You are the air the swan walks on. \
18You are the fringe of the curtain \
19that separates me from you. I say \
20that you are no longer the temple, \
21that you have been through fire \
22and are now less than ash. You are \
23the subtraction of yourself from \
24the world, the air without a swan. \
25Together, we are each other. You \
26and I have both nothing and everything \
27at once, we own the world and nothing in it.