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Looking at | You


 
Your skin, 
Paler than a jug of farm fresh milk.   
 
Your lips, 
Dryer than a drought in Death Valley.   
 
Your nose, 
More crooked than Hillary Rodham Clinton.   
 
Your hair, 
Rougher than ‘98 Compton California.   
 
Your eyes, 
Deader than roadkill on Interstate-5.   
 
Your ears, 
Pointier than a freshly sharpened steak knife.   
 
Your teeth, 
Yellower than a stalk of corn in July.   
 
Your chin, 
More bulgy than Ted Bundy’s rap sheet.   
 
Your neck, 
Shorter than Kim Kardashian’s first marriage. 
 
This mirror, 
Shoddier than Dollar Tree dupes. 
 
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