The Tallest of Smalls

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Perhaps you don’t know— then, maybe you do—

o Smalls of St e o l l T v t e h t and their story for you,

il s i

6


tall,

where people like we— some tiny, some with games and schools and clocks on the wall—


a

keep an eye on the time,

for each evening at six, they meet in the circle for the purpose of sticks;


tall stilts

upon which

ltsvillian can strut i t S a

above those down in the rut;

and be lifted


less and the least, the shy and shier, the

not-cools and have-nots

the

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r e h g i h o t n t g o a ho w

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can’t because in the giving of sticks, their names are not called;

but

they never get picked.


Like Ollie, the boy

whose pants have a patch,

whose legs are too skinny;

his soc k s never mat c h.


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