A friend invite from a former lover is the common cold.
It’s irritating, hard to get rid of. Try to ignore it. Don’t.
Hover over her main page. Bathe in the sick blue light
of LCD. Cursors open portals to the past, their present.
Approach every aspect of the page like a ghost. Read
through her interests. Browse her wall posts. See how
they change, don’t change, won’t. Surf aimlessly through
frozen moments. Find one frame you lurk around in, just
out of focus. Probably just your right arm or forgotten shoes
that have left a tiny footprint on her digital identity. Attach
needless significance to it anyway. Check out the page
of the new person in her life. Compare said person to self.
(Promise to) never go on the page again. Respond to request.
She’s a number, placeholder, a ones and zeroes memory.