Things I Might Lose This Year

My keys. My wallet.
The money inside.
Or just some spare change.

Articles of clothing:
socks, underwear, a shirt.
Perhaps (inexplicably) a shoe.

A few pounds.
Internet passwords.

The one screw I need
to hold it all together.
The need for that screw.

Friends.
A loved one.
More than one.

My job. My fear
of losing my job.

My conviction that I should
be something I'm not.
My state of not being that thing.

My nerve.
My hesitancy.

Seconds. Minutes.
Hours. Days.

My sense of failure.
My fear of same.

Everything.

Nothing.

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