and after a few minutes of the girl listening to the angels song she saw apollo raging and flying down in a rushed burn and ceding the morning and ripping the horsegut strings off his own lyre and flaying and dismembering the angel alive and tossing his skin and his remnants and his lizard into the river and the lizard drowned and the severed angelhead floated for a while but the short gray waves did not help it sing and finally the angelhead sank into the river .