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Upside Down

While standing on my hands,

Or balanced on my head,

Iā€™m looking at the world from upside down.

 

Iā€™m cartwheeling at play,

In my inverted way;

A raving king addicted to his crown.

 

Iā€™m hanging from the ceiling ā€“

A strangely bracing feeling ā€“

Suspended in the void just like a bat.

 

Revolving through one-eighty ā€“

My bottom end quite weighty ā€“

My view of Ea...

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