literature

I've kept everything

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I've kept everything
you've given me.

not only the presents,
in red ink and black
electrical tape,

but the notes,
poems, scraps
of ribbon.

I finger them as if
they were rags.

I imagine, five years
or two or
fewer
from now, I will

shake them from the
dust they've been
sleeping in

and touch them
just once more,
thinking
"I remember when he used to love me"
reverse nostalgia
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