From e0b1c2737397839ff5ba8c129d31baf6f97805fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:10:17 -0700 Subject: Finish linking Elegy, Hezekiah; Rename files --- 99-swansong-alt.txt | 27 --------------------------- 1 file changed, 27 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 99-swansong-alt.txt (limited to '99-swansong-alt.txt') diff --git a/99-swansong-alt.txt b/99-swansong-alt.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b6cbab2..0000000 --- a/99-swansong-alt.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,27 +0,0 @@ ---- -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