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Pocket Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by Hannah Sanghee Park

Open sesame
opens a mess. Mass men seem
sane? Nope: asses. See


no names (spans eons)
Men mope, assess, pose as some
Esso posse: peons

see a man’s seams mean
a name, pens men a map! Ms.
senses no paean

(Mensa). Ms. no sap.
Snoops. Seeps Esso (ammo) on
men. No A.M., nap—

none pass on. Sans men, Man amens.
Names son as Ms.’s means.
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