DINNER DATE

This evening could have had
a very different trajectory.
If you had worn a different dress
– with less lace
and tasteful rips –
or I had drunk
with somewhat less abandon
or something closer to restraint…
If you had talked less about
your exes
and I had not mentioned that night on ecstasy
or if you’d chosen
a less revealing top
before you started pouring all that wine…

If any of these had been different,
if our choices were slightly refracted,
them I probably wouldn’t have spent quite so much time
in the bathroom
pleasuring myself.

Possibly, it could have taken
much much longer.