Let's pretend to forget each other's birthdays
An activity we can do together even now we've grown apart
Love is weakness
In the same way that you have a weakness for girls in ripped jeans and I have a weakness for raspberry jam
If you called me tomorrow I would pick up the phone like a lucky penny on a no-good day and tell you I've missed the sound of your voice
Yet when I saw you on main street last summer we both smiled without saying hello
We were family once
I don't even know what time zone you live in
Sometimes I still buy that popcorn you like just to eat the whole bag alone
But I don't buy jam
The raspberry seeds get stuck in my permanent retainer
Loneliness a foreign object hiding behind straight teeth
--forever friends // 4lornly















