I like old clothes,

Hand-me down clothes,

Worn outgrown clothes,

Not-my-own clothes.

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When somebody grows

and gives me her clothes,

I don’t say “what, those?”

And turn up my nose

The way some people do

When their clothes aren’t new

 

I like old clothes.

I really do.

Clothes with a history,

Clothes with a mystery...

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by Mary Ann Hoberman