at long last, goodbye

have you heard of a refreshing goodbye?
you know refreshing, like autumn breeze
perhaps like air freshener, the yellow one
eats the stench of the past like sponge.
it's the type of goodbye
that once said,
will give you a form of amnesia.
whatever happened before goodbye
is a wiped slate.
clean.
perhaps like air freshener, the yellow one.

have you heard of a clean goodbye?
you know clean, like bleach
perhaps like acid or lime
eats laundry to sparkling whiteness.
but it's the type of white
that corrodes.
it's the type of white,
that will leave you brown with rust.
won't leave no sound nor disgust.

it's white, alright.
perhaps like bleach.
instant sparkling freshness!
quick say one now!

have you heard of a painfully long and dull goodbye?
it has almost the same effect.
not ambush, but amnesia.
i know, i took the longer route.
yet i forget all the same.
it just took a little while longer.
i haven't been super-efficient.
my mistake.

but this white is corrosive.
I am white, but I'll be brown soon.
brown like frown.
frown on my white white crown.
crown is falling down down down.

have you heard of a refreshing goodbye?
i think i prefer yellow.
you know, like air freshener.
citrusy freshness makes you forget easier.
though i heard once
a medical fact or something like that
the nose goes directly to the brain.
so maybe it's not selective amnesia
perhaps selective aphasia?
i've always failed in understanding you.
or maybe reverse aphasia
because you didn't understand me.
or i didn't let you to.

but whatever. the past is already too long.

so it's taken me this long
i've digressed and i've regressed
but finally actually actually
i'm saying goodbye.

goodbye.