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My body tells me that I am,
…With ev’ry ache and pain.
It wants to tell me to be bound
…To bed, by Time’s long chain.
But all the signals are denied
…By the essential me,
Which says it simply isn’t true
…That I am seventy.
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© Dennis Allen Lange and thebardonthehill.wordpress.com, 2017.
The Bard on the Hill 