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-This poem is dry like chapped lips. \
-It is hard as teeth---hear the tapping? \
+This poem is dry like [chapped lips][].  \
+[It is hard as teeth][]---hear the tapping?  \
 It is the swan song of beauty, as all \
-swan songs are. Reading it, you are \
-puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed. \
-Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing. \
+swan songs are.  [Reading][] it, you are \
+puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed.  \
+Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing.  \
 A honking over the cliff is all \
 they can do, and that they do \
-badly. You don't know where I'm going. \
-You want to tell me, You are not you. \
-You are the air the swan walks on. \
+badly.  You don't know where I'm going.  \
+You want to tell me, [You are not you][].  \
+[You are the air the swan walks on.][]  \
 You are the fringe of the curtain \
-that separates me from you. I say \
+[that separates me from you][].  I say \
 that you are no longer the temple, \
-that you have been through fire \
-and are now less than ash. You are \
+that you have been through [fire][] \
+and are now less than ash.  You are \
 the subtraction of yourself from \
-the world, the air without a swan. \
-Together, we are each other. You \
+the world, [the air without a swan][].  \
+Together, we are each other.  You \
 and I have both nothing and everything \
 at once, we own the world and nothing in it.
+
+[chapped lips]: time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html
+[It is hard as teeth]: no-nothing.html
+[Reading]: poetry-time.html
+[You are not you]: about-the-author.html
+[You are the air the swan walks on.]: swansong.html
+[that separates me from you]: elegyforanalternateself.html
+[fire]: fire.html
+[the air without a swan]: finding-the-lion.html