Yes, I’ve Been to Costa Rica

Shavaun Scott
Nov 5 · 1 min read

The 17 lost years

Photo by Andalucía Andaluía on Unsplash

I’m talented at forgetting

Photo albums filled with faces
antics, anniversaries, adventures
A couple smiling fondly
fashionably

I’m talented at forgetting

Albums packed in boxes
boxes packed in closets
Your spector faintly lurking
peripherally

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Shavaun Scott

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Psychotherapist, Writer, Columnist, Relationship Educator, Author Game Addiction: The Experience and the Effects (McFarland Books, 2009)

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