one art, elizibeth bishop, marshall ross, east greenwich high school,

1. One Art Elizabeth Bishop

3. Lose something everyday. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent

4. The Art of losing isn’t hard to master.

5. None of these will bring Disaster Then practice losing farther, Places, And names, And where it was you meant to travel Losing Faster:

6. I lost my Mother’s watch

7. AND LOOK!

8. My last, or next to last, Of Three Loved Houses went

9. The Art of Losing Isn't Hard To Master

10. Lovely ones. I lost two cities, And, some realms I owned, vaster , two rivers,

11. But it wasn’t a disaster tinent a con I miss them,

12. ---Even Losing you (The joking voice, a gesture I liked) I shan’t have lied

13. It’s evident The art of losing’s not too hard to master Though it may look like (Write it!)

14. Like Disaster