ground rules for a given moment (unspoken)

I won't bother you with pressing 
questions or needless details 
unless you let me. Let's 
call that a deal, but you 
can always declare 
a tangent lopped
and dropped, cut 
short or off - a way

closed 

and I won't mind at all. 
The interest in it was 
joined or nil. It wasn't 

small talk, no, but 
it could have been 
large or deep, wide 
or far, long or short 
- it would have to be 
joined. Ours,
or nil. No one's.

So you know,
I don't engage 
in talks with you or 
anyone to drag along 
dawdling after me 
by obligation or threat! 

Honestly

Who does that? 

Who says that. 

So let's call that a deal, 

and you  
at any point

can always call it off.
I won't bother you, unless 
stung by a jolt of hot interest 
shared, you find you want 
to be bothered

for some reason
momentarily