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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: Swansong | ||
| 3 | subtitle: alternate version | ||
| 4 | genre: verse | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | id: swansong-alt | ||
| 7 | toc: "Swan song (alternate)" | ||
| 8 | |||
| 9 | project: | ||
| 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 | ||