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Book 21 Page 28
Upon a heart beat
Upon a little heart beat
I live my life.
Bomb bomb bomb;
if it stops I’m in strife.
And it’s been pumping
a thousand million times,
and up till now,
it’s doing fine.
I check it every once in a while going,
Bomb bomb bomb,
To make sure
I’m still alive.
My little clock / besides my brain is my
very most favorite possession.
Going bomb - bomb - bomb
sometime slow / sometimes in quick succession.
And when it stops one day
(and I hope that won’t be soon.)
When it stops playing
that bomb bomb tune;
I’ll be off somewhere else no doubt,
with another kind of heart,
taking with me all the love of the world
when this body and me depart.
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