Best Misplacing Poems

What if a bee forgot how to sting?
Is a choirboy not able to sing?
Can birds fly without flapping each wing?
Why is it that you are losing everything?

You lose things here.  You lose things there.
You are losing things everywhere.
It all seems like a terrible waste
whenever...

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I've almost forgotten it.
It got too big -
holes appeared,
entire towns fell through them.

The Forbidden City
is a convoluted red and gold ribbon
my mind cannot now untangle.
Images float off the ink
of curling maps.
Snapshots flutter
like flags in a desert sky.

I recall in parts and pieces:
middle-aged couple’s street dancing,
no...

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I've almost forgotten it.
It got too big -
holes appeared,
entire towns fell through
my memory.

The Forbidden City
is a convoluted red and gold ribbon,
my mind cannot now untangle.
Images float off the ink
of curling maps.
Snapshots flutter
like flags in a desert sky.

I recall in parts and pieces:
middle-aged couple’s street dancing,
no...

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