Idiot! (11/36)
Vonnets in an Airport Lounge
Three years on. I’m twenty five. It is spring
and out of the blue she gave me a ring.
“Perhaps … was wondering … Can I visit you?”
Blink clarity! “Idiot! No answer you’ll rue!
If I say ‘No’ I may lose her.
But I don’t want to lose her.
But you are not dating her.
Then you will lose her.
I don’t want to lose her.
Then I better marry her.
Buy time! Not my normal, ‘No visit now.’
I have to reorder my life somehow…”
If I said “No” that would have brought sorrow.
I improvised. “I’ll call you tomorrow.”
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