Convenient

You miss me when it’s convenient

You’ll light up my phone when the game’s no good and the beers add up

And you remember I exist

You never fully forgot, of course

And you never will

My face covers the inside of your eyelids when a Taylor Swift song comes on

And when a girl runs past you on the street, your heart skips a beat

But you erase me from your memory

Until you’re staring at the bottom of the bottle

And you hear my laugh in the distance

I miss you when I brush my teeth

I delete your number so I can’t be tempted by your name

And I try to forget that you exist

I never fully do, of course

And I never will

I jump at the idea of your reflection

And when I run past someone on the street, I imagine it’s you

But I erase you from my memory