That boy, his brain doesn't work right --
But don't make fun of him!
His body may be seventeen,
But his mind's only ten.
The fact that some may mock him,
It seems sad and wrong to me.
It's not as if he chose to have this disability!
Does it matter that he's seventeen,
And his brain's only ten?
He still wants to be loved and praised:
A trait that's known as "human".
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Greater Than the Sum of Our Differences
PoetryThis book is comprised of fifteen different poems -- lyric, spoken word, and free verse. They show how people with disabilities are often treated differently than other "normal" people, even though there really is no such thing as "normal". Some of...
