all_the_lost_things
raze
maybe
you
know
this
story
.
there
was
a
man
who
was
terrified
of
forgetting
everything
he
knew
.
so
he
gave
every
person
,
place
,
and
thing
a
name
. morphemes
only
he
could
see
.
and
he
tucked
them
all
away
in
his
memory
.
as
the
number
of
names
grew
,
his
ability
to
retain
them
diminished
.
soon
there
were
too
many
to
hold
onto
.
words
began
to
disappear.
trees
.
chairs
.
birds
.
he
forgot
them
all
.
on
his
last
day
,
every
scent
and
sound
and
faded
photograph
that
had
fled
too
far
to
be
found
was
sewn
back
into
the
maw
of
his
mind
.
he
died
with
a
song
on
his
lips
and
a
smile
in
his
eyes
.
all
lost
things
are
returned
to
us
in
time
.
but
what
does
it
mean
to
remember
when
we're
lost
too
?
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what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from