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Threadbare Ted

Threadbare Ted 

Threadbare Ted of many years,
Sent wherever fortune steers,
To a basket of arms, be plucked and curled,
The lead subject of stories told and twirled.

A simple wish: to be held skewiff,
At an angle that would scare most stiff 
While jostled, tumbled, dragged straight through
Mud, and dust, and water too.

Yet never once did Teddy grumble:
Along each pathway he’d be trundled,
For while his stitched-up heart still beat,
The world was wide, and life was sweet.

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