From 96ab7a3ce522f38a768e67c73021bf1071832a37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:04:05 -0700 Subject: Add Paul; move source files to src/ --- src/swansong-alt.txt | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/swansong-alt.txt (limited to 'src/swansong-alt.txt') diff --git a/src/swansong-alt.txt b/src/swansong-alt.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9a9eba --- /dev/null +++ b/src/swansong-alt.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: Swansong +subtitle: alternate version +genre: verse + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + css: autocento +... + +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