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1 | swansong | ||
2 | alternate | ||
3 | version | ||
4 | this | ||
5 | poem | ||
6 | is | ||
7 | dry | ||
8 | like | ||
9 | chapped | ||
10 | lips | ||
11 | it | ||
12 | is | ||
13 | hard | ||
14 | as | ||
15 | teeth | ||
16 | hear | ||
17 | the | ||
18 | tapping | ||
19 | it | ||
20 | is | ||
21 | the | ||
22 | swan | ||
23 | song | ||
24 | of | ||
25 | beauty | ||
26 | as | ||
27 | all | ||
28 | swan | ||
29 | songs | ||
30 | are | ||
31 | reading | ||
32 | it | ||
33 | you | ||
34 | are | ||
35 | puzzled | ||
36 | perhaps | ||
37 | a | ||
38 | little | ||
39 | repulsed | ||
40 | swans | ||
41 | do | ||
42 | not | ||
43 | have | ||
44 | teeth | ||
45 | nor | ||
46 | do | ||
47 | they | ||
48 | sing | ||
49 | a | ||
50 | honking | ||
51 | over | ||
52 | the | ||
53 | cliff | ||
54 | is | ||
55 | all | ||
56 | they | ||
57 | can | ||
58 | do | ||
59 | and | ||
60 | that | ||
61 | they | ||
62 | do | ||
63 | badly | ||
64 | you | ||
65 | don't | ||
66 | know | ||
67 | where | ||
68 | i'm | ||
69 | going | ||
70 | you | ||
71 | want | ||
72 | to | ||
73 | tell | ||
74 | me | ||
75 | you | ||
76 | are | ||
77 | not | ||
78 | you | ||
79 | you | ||
80 | are | ||
81 | the | ||
82 | air | ||
83 | the | ||
84 | swan | ||
85 | walks | ||
86 | on | ||
87 | you | ||
88 | are | ||
89 | the | ||
90 | fringe | ||
91 | of | ||
92 | the | ||
93 | curtain | ||
94 | that | ||
95 | separates | ||
96 | me | ||
97 | from | ||
98 | you | ||
99 | i | ||
100 | say | ||
101 | that | ||
102 | you | ||
103 | are | ||
104 | no | ||
105 | longer | ||
106 | the | ||
107 | temple | ||
108 | that | ||
109 | you | ||
110 | have | ||
111 | been | ||
112 | through | ||
113 | fire | ||
114 | and | ||
115 | are | ||
116 | now | ||
117 | less | ||
118 | than | ||
119 | ash | ||
120 | you | ||
121 | are | ||
122 | the | ||
123 | subtraction | ||
124 | of | ||
125 | yourself | ||
126 | from | ||
127 | the | ||
128 | world | ||
129 | the | ||
130 | air | ||
131 | without | ||
132 | a | ||
133 | swan | ||
134 | together | ||
135 | we | ||
136 | are | ||
137 | each | ||
138 | other | ||
139 | you | ||
140 | and | ||
141 | i | ||
142 | have | ||
143 | both | ||
144 | nothing | ||
145 | and | ||
146 | everything | ||
147 | at | ||
148 | once | ||
149 | we | ||
150 | own | ||
151 | the | ||
152 | world | ||
153 | and | ||
154 | nothing | ||
155 | in | ||
156 | it | ||