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A Penny for Your Thoughts
The copper coin
 Its edges dark and worn
 Cool to the touch
 Small to the sight
 Insignificant as it seems
 It has a story to tell
 
 The brown leather wallet 
 The rose-colored porcelain piggy bank
 The petite rustic, hand-carved wooden box
 The small translucent ashtray that read “Take a penny, give a penny”
 The colossal scarlet jute purse
 The fluorescent green sock
 
 For the middle-aged man in Mercedes, it was nothing
 For the rosy-cheeked toddler with two blonde pigtails, it was everything
 For the hoary woman, it was all she had
 For the naïve college student, it was all he needed
 For the teenage boy, it was a secret lucky charm
 For the stay at home mother, it was something else to put away
 
 Yet, here it lies
 Strewn on the floor
 Lost in a sea of copper
 Universally Particular
 One out of the many
 E Pluribus Unum
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