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The Things I've Lost
A bright pink MP3 player
Somewhere in my room
Or perhaps the cat ate it
A fifty-dollar bill
That fell out of my pocket at a Target
When I was thirteen
My heart
Many times over the past decade
It always came back
Two spoons, a knife, and two forks
Two months after I bought them
Lost forever in the vastness of my dorm room
Faith in myself
When I was eleven
And felt I had nothing left
A black wristband
In the recesses of my closet
Probably gathering dust or fully decomposed by now
The idea that my parents were gods
That I could only pray to be like
When I began to become one myself
A cheap cell phone
Probably still ringing sadly
In the back of a used bookstore
My faith in Jesus
I’m not sure when I lost that
Maybe when I first started questioning Him
My taste for bananas
Red wine, cigarettes, and cheese sticks
All for different reasons at different times
Two cats
Who died when I was seven and eleven
(Heart failure both times)
And one blue earring
Which fell down a vent
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