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2 | title: 'Swansong' | ||
3 | subtitle: 'alternate version' | ||
4 | project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' | ||
5 | ... | ||
6 | |||
7 | This poem is dry like chapped lips. \ | ||
8 | It is hard as teeth---hear the tapping? \ | ||
9 | It is the swan song of beauty, as all \ | ||
10 | swan songs are. Reading it, you are \ | ||
11 | puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed. \ | ||
12 | Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing. \ | ||
13 | A honking over the cliff is all \ | ||
14 | they can do, and that they do \ | ||
15 | badly. You don't know where I'm going. \ | ||
16 | You want to tell me, You are not you. \ | ||
17 | You are the air the swan walks on. \ | ||
18 | You are the fringe of the curtain \ | ||
19 | that separates me from you. I say \ | ||
20 | that you are no longer the temple, \ | ||
21 | that you have been through fire \ | ||
22 | and are now less than ash. You are \ | ||
23 | the subtraction of yourself from \ | ||
24 | the world, the air without a swan. \ | ||
25 | Together, we are each other. You \ | ||
26 | and I have both nothing and everything \ | ||
27 | at once, we own the world and nothing in it. | ||