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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

When Does It Stop?



I wrote this after reading Ann's Twists and Turns post yesterday It is coming....  I'd been having a nagging "ticking" in my brain lately, and wondered what it was! 


“Bood-guy. . .”
“Goob-die. . .”
I am not going back
Don’t turn around
Eyes straight ahead
But
I'm hearing it still
“Tick, tock”
Faintly
Nagging
“Good-bye!”
There, I said it.
When does
The ticking
Stop?

I am so used to hearing it, that I imagine that I'm hearing it now. This is my first year of retirement, and still the tick, tock is a faint sound in my mind. I wonder when it stops?

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