Omission

Let's pretend
your
interests
never were mine.
Stack up the vinyl and
literature and bowl them
over
with our passion.
If we're being forward,
I'll say I don't care.
You'll say nothing, because
you are invisible.
And let's say I don't know
your smiling face
and you've never
noticed my sarcasm.
Let's say it for saying its sake.
Because
if we call
it what it is,
you'll take all
of it
away.
Let's say there are
no mannerisms in
anonymity. I will lie
about how I really don't care.
And you can pretend
you aren't listening to
every word.
You're not waiting to see
yourself in the pieces that
are left of me.
Let's pretend I can't
tell your punctuation from
the next man's ending.
Go ahead,
tell me,
tell me that I can't feel you
even through invisibility.
And I'll tell you I don't want to.