My Tiny Toes Are Not My Nose
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My tiny toes
Are not my nose.
My chubby thighs
Are not my eyes.
My slender hips
Are not my lips.
My salty tears
Are not my ears.
My soft, soft skin
Is not my chin.
My tummy-tum-tum
Is not my thumb.
My wrinkled palms
Are not my arms.
My tight-clenched fist
Is not my wrist.
And yet I know
I am made so
When they combine
They are all mine!
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