but then it ends with, “i find that if you want to be anonymous, you do things with your non-dominant hand. you think differently….like another person almost.”
and i stop short.
“i was wondering when you had seen me wanting to be anonymous.”

90% of the time everything i do is tongue-in-cheek. even those times when only i can feel my tongue against the insides of my mouth. especially those times.
how have i betrayed myself in that last tenth?

i receive no reply.
and of course, these aren’t the kinds of things you ask again.