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52 Hertz

(Shadow) 

 

There’s a constant ache of a memory -

Your eyes, your smile and your hair;

I fell in love with a shadow,

Though, of course, there was nothing there.

 

The pulse of the thing was enormous

It beat in my head night and day

The piteous joke and pain of it

Was it only travelled one way.

 

So the pulse throbs on unabated

A secret cross t...

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52 Hertz

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