Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

What Have You Lost

backpacks, rugs, shoes, a couch or two, lots of junk from a junk drawer,
what kind of junk?
Just general junk.
Can you itemize it?
pennies,
scissors,
toothbrushes,
matches,
pens, 
eyeglasses,
toothpaste,
combs,
dog chews,
nickles,
necklaces,
rings,
thread,
dimes,
a quarter or two,
balloons,
Scotch tape.
Not an off brand? Scotch?
I stare at the imaginary appraiser in my daydream.
What would I do in a fire?
I guess I had better never have one.
Or I might become a murderess as well as an arsonist.

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Darlene De Beaulieu January 17, 2019 at 12:42 PM Hello caren, I have lost earrings,penecklacennies,dimes,quarters, small ornaments. pens{under my nose{ just to name a few.Have a nice day my friend. Darlene De Beaulieu January 18, 2019 at 10:55 AM I have lot earrings and I do not feel them fall off. Sometimes it is in side the house, it would take me 2 or 3 weeks to find it, once i found ear ring int the shower stall's drain. have a nice day my friend. Caren Krutsinger January 17, 2019 at 3:17 PM I have lost so much jewelry when I find it I am amazed, and when I see stuff on others I think "I used to have something a lot like that, but I had forgotten about it."

M. L. Kiser December 28, 2018 at 3:34 PM Ooh, it accumulates very fast; If you can't recycle it somehow...sell it or donate it. Caren Krutsinger December 28, 2018 at 8:44 PM I tried the selling thing. Here is my problem. The second I say I am selling ten people drag 16 carloads and 8 truckloads of their junk to my house so we can "sell" together and I buy most of it.

Rhona Mcferran December 27, 2018 at 5:27 AM I still have an occasional junk elf problem here, too... although my husband has scared most of them away. He still doesn't believe in junk elves, though... so I get blamed when their handiwork shows up! ;o Caren Krutsinger December 27, 2018 at 5:32 AM With me, I just get one cleaned out and bam! There are six more of them. I have no idea how my desk got this way; if I was to list what was on my tiny desk along with a keyboard, a diaper, a spool of thread,and empty pill bottle, a shirt, a purse, well I could go on for days.

Sand Blown December 26, 2018 at 7:42 AM an important life item is: how well did you learn to let go...that has worked for me...times life and things pass Caren Krutsinger December 26, 2018 at 7:48 AM I have let go, and let go and let go, and still the piles resume. I think elves are running in here nightly and dumping twenty or sixty more things into each junk drawer.