Mortality Calls

When you hear it put that way, don’t it make you want to live?

My youthful apparition
was worsening my condition

My condition was called growing old

The ghost of my childhood
did not make me feel good,

I was queasy, uneasy and cold

I rang up my doctor
my phone call it shocked her

Though it was nearly two in the morn

She told me to go
and said don’t you know

You’ve been dying since the day you were born

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