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AFTER IKKYU: 5 by JAMES HARRISON

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First Line: TIME EATS US ALIVE
Last Line: AS A SINGLE CELL IN THE OLD MUD HOMESTEAD.
Subject(s): AGING;
Time eats us alive.
On my birthday yesterday
I was only one day older
though I began ten million eons ago
as a single cell in the old mud homestead.



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