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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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