HEART
I AM BARNEY’S HEART
Barney Clark a Seattle dentist became the
1st recipient of an artificial heart (The Jarvik 7)
It was March 23, 1983 Only catch was that Barney
was attached to an air compressor for his last 112
days
His dreams were filled with childhood memories
though strangely the love of his life Lola Loman
morphed into an hourglass shaped robot who
mopped Barney’s brow and stroked his chest as he
slid in & out of consciousness
In the end Lola carried Barney Jarvik’s body over
hill & dale to a grassy knoll in Yellowknife Where to
this day they watch the Aurora play in the night sky
over Blachford Lake Many say that Barney’s sacrifice
was too great
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I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and
life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing
animation upon lifeless matter.
Mary Shelley Frankenstein 1818
John Lehmann Aurora Yellowknife April 2014
SPRING 2015 for Lee Atkins author of: I AM JOE’S HEART 1967
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