Anytime you say anything,
Do you say everything?
If not, then why do you
Take what I said
As if that were
The whole of my position
On the entirety of
Everything in existence—
As if my silence at the moment
On other matters
Were an indictment against them?
If you can’t constrain yourself
To stop filling in the blanks
As you wish,
Instead of doing me the honor
Of asking about the rest,
Rather than assuming that
You know what I think,
Then it makes me wonder
Whether the best policy for me
Is that,
Whenever I say anything,
It will not be to you.
Indeed, it seems you are content
Too often
To have both sides
Of this conversation
Yourself.
