Forgetting About

Taking pulls from a warm flask
Of Jack in the passenger’s seat,
Bottoms up, eyes closed,
Swerving through lanes at the grocery
Store my fondest memories
In the baby blue envelope you mailed me last
Sprayed with your sweet and familiar
Plum and coke perfume,
You, me, and leather seats in summer heat,
Chugging chocolate bars at Barnes and Nobles,
Before we race to my car in the crowded parking
Lots of times you could have stayed at
Home instead
We spent nights memorizing movies and the lines
On each other’s palms, and the glass
Globes on display, at the mall
We used to rendezvous at the same corner
After you got off work and your high heels
Turned your feet blue and cramped, crammed
Your hands in my pockets when you forgot
Your gloves in your room
Needed a new light bulb, bright and florescent like
The moon you said and smiled and
Laughed whenever I tried biting your ears
Always got cold first and last
Year was the best year for falling
In love and life was meant for accidents like this
Was what I waiting for
A long time to tell you, “I can’t
Say it, so I’ll write it,” in the loudest pen I have
Only one sheet left-
Handed scribbling:
Goodbye, Goodbye
Goodbye
Good
Bye.