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Johnny found a penny on the ground when he was five

He stuck it in a empty
coffee can and taped the lid shut

Slit the top and labeled it with masking
tape: Free Money

Now he's got good reason to pay attention to details

Understands potential of the little things in life

That most people
arrogantly pass by on high horses

Too caught up in the ride, too
wide-eyed

Too lost in a head of pointless thoughts to realize

That
deaf ears mute traditional voices

He was smart kid

Knew enough to
keep his head straight

Despite his crooked optic, he's cycloptic

Collects change off the ground after people drop it

Add it to the
Maxwell House account

Nobody knows about

Not the kids on the
playground

They knock him down

But he sees more with one eye than
those guys

He'll survive the hurt pride and the broken nose dives

Til the miracle medical procedure eliminates the need for

Prescription
monocles and trips to the hospital

Every Monday for a physical

College graduation looking like a normal citizen

But he never quite
fit in, he was a freak til age eleven

Never told his secret, never looked
at pictures

Never had a girlfriend

Never trusted mirrors

Never
liked two eyes to dry tears

Johnny goes to work every day

He's a
salesman, has to sell himself

To sell enough to make commission

Legal prostitution

He hates himself for the first time, breaks down
and cries

Is this why I worked so hard to hold on to this life?

To
get shit on by people that I don't even like?

Used to be that everyone
expected me to fight

Now they're like, "Play nice"

And on his knees
his sees shiny new quarter

In the grass

And all the walls start to
collapse

He makes about eighty bucks a day, good pay

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