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| 2 | title: Swan song | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: swansong | ||
| 6 | toc: "Swan song" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 9 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 10 | class: elegies | ||
| 11 | order: 24 | ||
| 12 | prev: | ||
| 13 | - title: The squirrel | ||
| 14 | link: squirrel | ||
| 15 | next: | ||
| 16 | - title: Telemarketer | ||
| 17 | link: telemarketer | ||
| 18 | ... | ||
| 19 | |||
| 20 | | Swans fly overhead singing goodbye | ||
| 21 | | to we [walkers of the earth][ithappened]. You point | ||
| 22 | | to them in formation, you tell me | ||
| 23 | | you are not you. [You are the air the swans | ||
| 24 | | walk on][alt] as they journey like pilgrims | ||
| 25 | | to a temple in the south. A curtain | ||
| 26 | | there separates me from you, swans | ||
| 27 | | from the air they fly through. I say | ||
| 28 | | that you are no longer the temple, | ||
| 29 | | that you have been through fire | ||
| 30 | | and are now less than ash. You are | ||
| 31 | | a [mirror][] of me, the [air without a swan][trumpet]. | ||
| 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 | [ithappened]: howithappened.html | ||
| 37 | [mirror]: moongone.html | ||
| 38 | [trumpet]: deathstrumpet.html | ||
| 39 | [alt]: swansong-alt.html | ||