To forget someone
Just keep on walking
Keep on dragging your feet
Like a vacuum cleaner
Sucking away life’s white noise
Like the iron put aside on its side and forgotten
The tap left running, forgotten, not turned off
Like a tune that sounds in the brain for the 99th time
And then forgetting the title of a song
Like the thread of a kite flown by a child on the grass beyond the window breaking
You can’t see 
                 the end of the thread in the tiny hand
On the field many flags are raised
The tongue loses and forgets language 
                                 abandoning lips and teeth
Like forgotten vows that should have been pronounced
Like forgetting to close the door
And turning the light off before going out