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Hey,
You don't know me - I mean, we've never spoken.
But you know who I am, right?
Mentioned in passing.
Probably rudely.
That's fine.
That's to be expected.
That's fine.
I didn't mean to bother you.
I never meant to bother you.
Not out of kindness, I don't think -
to see you be bothered would be to humanize you
see you as real
and things were softer on me
when you were an abstract.

I'm talking nonsense, sorry.

Anyway.
I nicked something of yours,
though you wouldn't know it.
I leaned heavily on some people -
and they, too, should be held accountable -
but they opened the door and I stepped through
which is a crude way of phrasing it
but a crime is a crime.

So I'm writing to let you know that there's been a punishment.
That's all.
I hope you and I never meet.