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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Swansong | ||
3 | id: swansong-alt | ||
4 | subtitle: alternate version | ||
5 | genre: verse | ||
6 | |||
7 | project: | ||
8 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
9 | class: autocento | ||
10 | ... | ||
11 | |||
12 | This poem is dry like [chapped lips][]. \ | ||
13 | [It is hard as teeth][]---hear the tapping? \ | ||
14 | It is the swan song of beauty, as all \ | ||
15 | swan songs are. [Reading][] it, you are \ | ||
16 | puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed. \ | ||
17 | Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing. \ | ||
18 | A honking over the cliff is all \ | ||
19 | they can do, and that they do \ | ||
20 | badly. You don't know where I'm going. \ | ||
21 | You want to tell me, [You are not you][]. \ | ||
22 | [You are the air the swan walks on.][] \ | ||
23 | You are the fringe of the curtain \ | ||
24 | [that separates me from you][]. I say \ | ||
25 | that you are no longer the temple, \ | ||
26 | that you have been through [fire][] \ | ||
27 | and are now less than ash. You are \ | ||
28 | the subtraction of yourself from \ | ||
29 | the world, [the air without a swan][]. \ | ||
30 | Together, we are each other. You \ | ||
31 | and I have both nothing and everything \ | ||
32 | at once, we own the world and nothing in it. | ||
33 | |||
34 | [chapped lips]: time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html | ||
35 | [It is hard as teeth]: no-nothing.html | ||
36 | [Reading]: poetry-time.html | ||
37 | [You are not you]: about-the-author.html | ||
38 | [You are the air the swan walks on.]: swansong.html | ||
39 | [that separates me from you]: elegyforanalternateself.html | ||
40 | [fire]: fire.html | ||
41 | [the air without a swan]: finding-the-lion.html | ||