My Five-Year-Old-Son Is Sad He Can'T Run the 100m Under 10 Seconds

He can't get over it
But what
I need 
To do
Is get over it
I need to do the work

When he came home from
School and explained to 
Me
Why the Taj Mahal 
Was built
I cried

Build a ladder 
To 
The
Stars
William
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