Selecting / discarding.
Retaining / consigning.
Staying / going.
Has worth / worth expired.
Could be / will never be.
Must /might.
Useful / You must be kidding.
Essential / peripheral.
Desirable / obsolete.
It's like writing a poem
preparing to move house.
All that accretion
requiring whittling down.
Uneasy decisions.
Arrangements.
And in the end
what stands
still shakes.
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