I unlearn this love,
Forget the electricity
that burns within me
as I catch your eye

Humming with the radio low

Push aside memories of your smell

The taste of whiskey on my fingers

Scratch your name away from toilet doors, note-books,

my skin

I remove memories as casually as you undressed me

Layer by layer

Turn my face away from dreaming
Teach my hands to be still

And I learn to breathe

With your hands around my neck