Talented private detective

the art of losing isn't hard to master,
so many things seem filled with the intent
to bi be lost that their loss is no disaster.

lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keyes, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practise losing father, losing faster:
places and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of this will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last or
next to last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.And vaster,
some realms I ownerd, 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 lived. It is evident
the art of losing s not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like
disaster,

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