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+title: Love Song
+genre: prose
+
+id: lovesong
+toc: "Love song"
+
+project:
+    title: Elegies for alternate selves
+    class: elegies
+    order: 15
+    prev:
+    - title: How it happened
+      link: howithappened
+    next:
+    - title: Rough gloves
+      link: roughgloves
+...
+
+Walking along in the dark is a good way to begin a song.
+Walking home in the dark after a long day chasing criminals is another.
+Running away from an imagined evil is no way to begin a story.
+
+I am telling you this because you wanted to know what it's like to tell [something so beautiful][] everyone will cry.
+I am telling you because I want you to know what it is to keep everything inside of you.
+I am telling you.
+
+Can you see?
+Can you see into me and reach in your hand and pull me inside out, like an [old shirt][]?
+Will you wear me until I unravel on your shoulders, will you cut me apart and use my skin to clean up the [cola you spill][] on the floor when you're drunk?
+
+I want you to know that I want you to know.
+Do you want me?
+To know is to know.
+[I, you want we.][]
+We want.
+That is why we're here.
+To want is to be is to want and I want you.
+Do you also?
+Check yes or no.
+
+There is a way to end every story, [every song][].
+Every criminal must be caught.
+Even those who cry dry their tears.
+I cannot tell you all I want because I want to tell you everything.
+[There is no art because there is no mirror big enough.][]
+We wake up every day.
+Sometimes we sleep.
+
+[old shirt]: ronaldmcdonald.html
+[every song]: swansong.html
+[something so beautiful]: window.html
+[cola you spill]: ex-machina.html
+[I, you want we.]: poetry-time.html
+[There is no art because there is no mirror big enough.]: hands.html