Gum
Pressed in the pavement
Scrape it up
Give it worth
Call it currency
Money
The life I was given
I didn’t ask for
Which I owe nothing
Needles
Painfully pluck
Each and every
One from a pine
Cannot be replaced
Forget about its poke
Time
Cannot be pushed
Cannot be pulled
Does it pass
Or do I
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