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My heart is scarred.
\nI’ve been disbarred
\nfrom life’s most supreme court.
\nI hope to squeeze some living in
\ndespite time being short.
\nA car needs a new battery.
\nPerhaps that’s what’s wrong with me.
\nIt’s not like I’ve become unwired.
\nJust spend more time being tired.
\nHard to get a rhythm thumping
\nwhen the heart is hardly pumping.
\nThere’s no dancing in the street
\nwhen the blood can’t keep the beat.
\nNo use pondering my faults.
\nJust slow things down to a waltz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My heart is scarred. I’ve been disbarred from life’s most supreme court. I hope to squeeze some living in despite time being short. A car needs a new battery. Perhaps that’s what’s wrong with me. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poem-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2512,"url":"https:\/\/redtinnoodles.com\/?p=2512","url_meta":{"origin":2558,"position":0},"title":"Heartfelt","author":"Rick Young","date":"July 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"My heart is like an engine that just runs on stolen\u00a0gas. Doc says the result's\u00a0from years of eating like an ass. 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