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Sixty-Five

 

 

Sixty-Five


©2009 by Alice Walker

Sixty-Five!
Who can
Believe it.

Why not
Fifty-six
Or
Even
Thirty-Five?

Though it is
True
Some things
Are
smaller
Or larger

Shorter
Or longer

Tighter
Or
Looser

Less
Or far
More
Or
Less
Glorious.
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