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<p><span class="line">Swans fly overhead singing goodbye</span><span class="line">to we <a href="howithappened.html">walkers of the earth</a>. You point</span><span class="line">to them in formation, you tell me</span><span class="line">you are not you. [You are the air the swans</span><span class="line">walk on]<a href="swansong-alt.html">alt</a> as they journey like pilgrims</span><span class="line">to a temple in the south. A curtain</span><span class="line">there separates me from you, swans</span><span class="line">from the air they fly through. I say</span><span class="line">that you are no longer the temple,</span><span class="line">that you have been through fire</span><span class="line">and are now less than ash. You are</span><span class="line">a <a href="moongone.html">mirror</a> of me, the <a href="deathstrumpet.html">air without a swan</a>.</span><span class="line">Together, we are each other. You</span><span class="line">and I have both nothing and everything</span><span class="line">at once. We own the world and nothing in it.</span></p>
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