A nickel makes up five pennies.
A quarter makes up five nickels.
A dollar makes up four quarters.
All lined up just as a still.
A minute is sixty seconds.
An hour is sixty minutes.
A day is twenty-four hours.
Ticking like a bomb.
If we had
A shoebox
bought only for a dime
would I have had
more pecking
I wonder in
The pec of time
Would I have been the doll’.
Wonders of a Forgotten Friend
By Neha Aigalikar
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