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Time, time, time, time, the clock
vaccinates us.
and then even that lacks
prophylaxis. 

Ticktock-pockmarked, stricken
by such strokes, we
get sick of prescriptions
which work solely 

on the body.
Systole diastole--
It is by its very 

intermittency
that the heart knows
itself to be an I.  

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