could get a credit card loan car
come and go without a never had
to think about a school work job
to open doors to buy a rent a nice
place yard park beside a walk
in any store without a never had
to dress to buy a dress shoes under-
wear to understate or –play myself
to make myself heard to get across
a street a never mind point I never
had to earn the right to climb
my own if I should lose my key or
all I own my open door world was all
before me where to choose to and I
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