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A Quiet Root

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“Second-Hand Dinosaur Pyjamas” by Samuel Tongue

It’s bed-time, my tiny Jurassic chaos,
and I scoop you up in your floofy
jimjams, a terrible lizard, dotted
all over with rainbow tyrannosaurs

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