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2title: Swan song
3id: swansong
4genre: verse
5
6project:
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
18Swans fly overhead singing goodbye \
19to we [walkers of the earth][ithappened]. You point \
20to them in formation, you tell me \
21you are not you. [You are the air the swans \
22walk on][alt] as they journey like pilgrims \
23to a temple in the south. A curtain \
24there separates me from you, swans \
25from the air they fly through. I say \
26that you are no longer the temple, \
27that you have been through fire \
28and are now less than ash. You are \
29a [mirror][] of me, the [air without a swan][trumpet]. \
30Together, we are each other. You \
31and I have both nothing and everything \
32at 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