I read this in parts in 'All My Rage'. I put in some parts...read the whole thing here.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47536/one-art
One Art
By Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master:
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster
Lose something everyday. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hours badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master
...
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster....
...
...
-I lost two cities, lovely ones.And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster...
....
...
Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.
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