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the sum of your things<br />
alyssa miskin<br />
I am a childhood trinket<br />
from an aunt you never liked<br />
fallen over in the back of a cupboard<br />
the backup pair of ballet shoes<br />
your mother bought<br />
even though you never wore the first<br />
I am the biography<br />
on your bedside table<br />
always almost halfway read<br />
Your grandmother’s tea set<br />
in the glass cabinet<br />
too precious, too pretty<br />
to use<br />
I am the photo on the wall<br />
down too close to the floor<br />
and your expectant jewellery box<br />
waiting for expensive gifts<br />
I am not your favourite cousin<br />
the <strong>one</strong> who smells of jasmine<br />
Not your oldest and ugliest stuffed toy<br />
that you keep to show your kids <strong>one</strong> day<br />
I am not even a quiet child<br />
forgotten at the shops<br />
remembered halfway to the car<br />
reminded by a wallet photograph<br />
I am just a used and out-of-style jacket<br />
discarded on the bus<br />
when the weather got warm s<br />
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