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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: Swan song | ||
| 3 | id: swansong | ||
| 4 | genre: verse | ||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | project: | ||
| 7 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 8 | class: elegies | ||
| 9 | order: 24 | ||
| 10 | prev: | ||
| 11 | - title: The squirrel | ||
| 12 | link: squirrel | ||
| 13 | next: | ||
| 14 | - title: Telemarketer | ||
| 15 | link: telemarketer | ||
| 16 | ... | ||
| 17 | |||
| 18 | Swans fly overhead singing goodbye \ | ||
| 19 | to we [walkers of the earth][ithappened]. You point \ | ||
| 20 | to them in formation, you tell me \ | ||
| 21 | you are not you. [You are the air the swans \ | ||
| 22 | walk on][alt] as they journey like pilgrims \ | ||
| 23 | to a temple in the south. A curtain \ | ||
| 24 | there separates me from you, swans \ | ||
| 25 | from the air they fly through. I say \ | ||
| 26 | that you are no longer the temple, \ | ||
| 27 | that you have been through fire \ | ||
| 28 | and are now less than ash. You are \ | ||
| 29 | a [mirror][] of me, the [air without a swan][trumpet]. \ | ||
| 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 | [ithappened]: howithappened.html | ||
| 35 | [mirror]: moongone.html | ||
| 36 | [trumpet]: deathstrumpet.html | ||
| 37 | [alt]: swansong-alt.html | ||