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by Jeph Johnson

I took over

one thousand 

photographs

of her smiling 

for me.

And though 

each one has 

proved fraudulent

over time,

they document 

a non-linear reality

I choose to believe 

still exists somewhere. 

I'm not putting 

any more work

into a relationship

she's abandoned.

That's why I refuse 

to remove them

from my scrapbook.