She Came Back From the Bathroom After Two Years
The bill arrived and she said are you going
to be hetero-normative about this
and pay which made me cock
my head to the side thinking
that really wasn’t an offer, as if after one swipe
right and a match one could even end
up in a good make out session
anyway, with one gloved hand on the stick
of a manual transmission car in the dead
of winter, MN. And when
she came back from the bathroom
after two years she called the NYTimes
crossword scrabble as I thumbed
at the checkered boxes on screen.
I was an English lit major, she said,
and I’ve got a penchant
for words, dough-n-chah-no. No shit, I said,
honey, and I'm a straight CIS male
misogynistic asshole.