From cbd5199529209059be3bde0d6572a1ba192b84d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:22:15 -0700 Subject: Add Elegies; template; pandoc compile script --- 99-swansong-alt.txt | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 99-swansong-alt.txt (limited to '99-swansong-alt.txt') diff --git a/99-swansong-alt.txt b/99-swansong-alt.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b6cbab2 --- /dev/null +++ b/99-swansong-alt.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: 'Swansong' +subtitle: 'alternate version' +project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' +... + +This poem is dry like chapped lips. \ +It is hard as teeth---hear the tapping? \ +It is the swan song of beauty, as all \ +swan songs are. Reading it, you are \ +puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed. \ +Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing. \ +A honking over the cliff is all \ +they can do, and that they do \ +badly. You don't know where I'm going. \ +You want to tell me, You are not you. \ +You are the air the swan walks on. \ +You are the fringe of the curtain \ +that separates me from you. I say \ +that you are no longer the temple, \ +that you have been through fire \ +and are now less than ash. You are \ +the subtraction of yourself from \ +the world, the air without a swan. \ +Together, we are each other. You \ +and I have both nothing and everything \ +at once, we own the world and nothing in it. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81