to Mr. Mean

to Mr. Mean
You’re deaf to your shrunken heart.
Your skill is to kill joy.
Your art is to break a boy’s toys
and smother his sunken dreams.
You look after your things and
hear only your drunken song.
You make a minute
seem an hour long.

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