- Unredeemed gift card for a neck and shoulder massage
- Shark tooth on a blue string necklace
- Baby tooth of my first dog
- and the last collar she ever wore
- The trick to keeping a Tamagotchi from starving
- The trick to asking for help
- Final digit of my kindergarten best friend’s phone number
- The promises we made
- The face of the ghost who kissed my eyelids and told me it wasn’t my time yet
- The hands of the ghost who told me I’d died a trillion times
- The mouth of the ghost who couldn’t speak, who swished psychedelic & tragic above my bed, whose scars glowed pink in the nightlight, who warned me with her LSD eyes that love is a currency for the living
- The hands of the ghost who told me I’d died a trillion times
- Green hospital bracelet
- The brass key that slipped through the keyhole, the one that unlocked the little door at the back of my skull so I could reach in and retrieve things I’d stored in there—for safekeeping, to forget a while, to hide from myself until I was no longer the same person
- The note you scribbled on my forearm in red pen
- that said everything’s gonna be ok someday
- i promise
- i’ve seen it
- it’s beautiful
- and you’re there
- so just hold on
- and you’re there
- it’s beautiful
- i’ve seen it
- i promise
- that said everything’s gonna be ok someday
