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