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Frog Skin Shoes

I almost bought some frog skin shoes

With sturdy rubber soles

Shiny green and mottled brown

With blinking eyelet holes

But when I slacked the laces

To try them on for size

The tongue shot up my trouser leg

And latched on to my flies

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