Penny

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Why must you tease the girl?

Why must you hurt her by picking up the rhyme to her steps as if it was just a mere penny—

Casting it away onto the sidewalk, laughing, moving on down the street.

As, after all, it's only one cent.

But what you can't see is that—

That penny, to me, it's made of gold.

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