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Leftovers

A breakup poem

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Jeffree Morel
Dec 08, 2025
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09/01/2024

Last night might have been the last time 
I put away your leftovers for you, 
because today is my moving day. 
The first in more than a decade we won’t share. 

You had left them out on the stove
when I returned from my friendly distraction
from the vacuum our future’s become. 

Garlic butter shrimp bowtie pasta
in a Christmas gift nonstick po…
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