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PRETEND Let's pretend that I don't love you, Let's imagine I don't care, That I never think about you, That you really are not there ... Then you may as well just Say the Sun is painted on the sky, Or maybe that a fish can run It's all a crazy lie. Let's pretend I don't think of your eyes I really could, you know ... At least as well as dogs could fly Or jelly beans could grow. Nor that I never miss your mouth, That perfect archer's bow, And wouldn't find a torture Missing such an angel's glow. It's easy to pretend I've not been Once forever kissed And never held you in my heart ... As easy to resist As images of elephants In pink or green or white, Or visage of the lunar man Emblazoned on the night, Or easy as the seasons might In backward order bring A Winter first, Then Fall and Summer, Ending with the Spring. Just pretend that I don't love you? Yes, of course it could be done A purging of the brain and heart And feelings, every one ... Just a bare and blank condition With no memory to resist ... And the picture's painted of a soul Who just does not exist. |