From 9fce418b46c9f0894f429384ef9e3dabaeffbeb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:36:17 -0700 Subject: Change file hierarchy and rewrite makefile - File hierarchy is now as follows: - / - appendix/ < appendix source files - backlinks/ < backlink sources & builds - hapax/ < *.hapax source files - scripts/ < scripts, like *.js, *.hs, etc. - templates/ < templates for outputs - text/ < source files - trunk/ < assets, like css, images, heads, etc. - index.html - *.html - Makefile --- text/swansong-alt.txt | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/swansong-alt.txt (limited to 'text/swansong-alt.txt') diff --git a/text/swansong-alt.txt b/text/swansong-alt.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..523d937 --- /dev/null +++ b/text/swansong-alt.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +--- +title: Swansong +subtitle: alternate version +genre: verse + +id: swansong-alt +toc: "Swan song (alternate)" + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + class: 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. + +[chapped lips]: time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html +[It is hard as teeth]: no-nothing.html +[Reading]: poetry-time.html +[You are not you]: about-the-author.html +[You are the air the swan walks on.]: swansong.html +[that separates me from you]: elegyforanalternateself.html +[fire]: fire.html +[the air without a swan]: finding-the-lion.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81