Heel & Toe To The End

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Heel & Toe To The End by William Carlos (WCW) Williams

Gagarin says, in ecstasy, he could have gone on forever he floated at and sang and when he emerged from that one hundred eight minutes off the surface of the earth he was smiling. Then he returned to take his place among the rest of us from all that division and subtraction a measure to and heel heel and toe he felt as if he had been dancing

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