# lost_and_found.py
print(“lost_and_found() booting up…”)
print(“Enter code for what you’ve lost:”)
print(“1: voice”)
print(“2: sleep”)
print(“3: her”)
print(“4: yourself”)
code = int(input(“Lost: “))
if code == 1:
print(“Voice located in /archive.”)
print(“Unusable. Full of tremble.”)
elif code == 2:
print(“Sleep not found.”)
print(“Try again at 03:47 AM.”)
elif code == 3:
print(“She’s offline.”)
print(“Has been since you last remembered.”)
elif code == 4:
print(“Yourself?”)
print(“Too vague. Be more specific.”)
else:
print(“Unknown input.”)
print(“Maybe you didn’t lose it.”)
print(“Maybe it left.”)
print(“return: None”)
if nothing returns:
sit with the loss.
sometimes, that’s how you find it.
Gordan Struić is a Croatian poet and writer whose work explores the blurred edges between emotion and code, silence and connection. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in literary journals including Beyond Words, 34th Parallel, Prosetrics Magazine, and Stone Poetry Quarterly. Drawing on digital language and quiet emotional states, his writing often resembles system logs of the heart. He holds degrees in law and comparative politics and works as a lawyer by day — and as a quiet compiler of feelings by night.