I am yet I am NOT a toddler.
I say to you Mayor Selby
As a toddler, having rats crawl over me
in your city, so many decades past
before me I see you
I have nightmares you will never see
A toddler will take the lolipop because
as a toddler I need nurture, never harm
and those of us that you call they, them,
and it - The problem
to depersonalize and separate yourself
from me as a human being
I say to you
let me be a free toddler
kicking and screaming with livid fear
and do not punish me
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