Official now, gone deaf

My ears are out the door

Words no longer hurt me

Speech that used to bore

They first heard my mam

Absorbed a wall of sound

Listened to words of love

From lovers that I found

Recoiled from animosity

Thrilled to airs of Mozart

Stood by when I was cruel

Inflicting a broken heart

Soaked up words of love

Tuned in to Radio One

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In layers of strata lie the tracks of history

Archaeologists hunt for artefacts and bones

I cut off your flex and buried you with ceremony

Lamenting the demise of your dulcet tones

Sentinel moonlight lit the private interment

Your laser will exhume Miles Davis no longer

Millenia of chords traversed that plastic portal

You left me deaf, my hearing aids get stronger

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