when i was very young,
i kept a book.

 

 

and in this book i listed

every embarassment, every humiliation

my little self had ever thought it had suffered.

 

i cannot remember what was in the book
or when i stopped using it.

 

but it was not used
to remind me

 

 

my mind still does that for me today
with the added advantage
of never running out of pages.

 

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