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The people on the crowded elevator

who share your personal space 

and feel the heat of you 

playing along their skin

The woman at the cocktail party

standing near, hair piled high

whose bare neck hums

with the vibrato of your laughter

The shopper in the grocery store

reaching for the same basket

who drowns, however briefly 

in the depths of your gaze

Their world does not suddenly shrink

to the spaces between electrons

to a flood of depolarizing neurons 

that conjure the illusion of touch

They can't appreciate 

the significance of your proximity

Their days won't be haunted

by the phantom of you