THE WORLD'S SMALLEST MAN
The world’s smallest man has a face like Don Knotts--
all big teeth and bulging eyes, a weak chin and
the kind of cheeks children draw on animals –
his neck looks impossibly long beneath such a face,
his arms too seem long, but they must be to do what his height cannot.
His skin everywhere looks tight, knuckles showing their joints
like each one is a ring he wears and cannot remove; yes, I am
small now, it says, but I remember what it was to be smaller,
smaller than I am now,
smaller than I may ever be again.
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