Cultural Recidivism

This will be the best day of your life, he said

the way they do when you say yes to a drink

but no to a dance, to a walk, to a room to sleep in

when the gin starts to swim in your head like the ghost of a past 

love you cant shake because to him

it is not about love and though you mean yes to a

a friend he hears yes to a fuck and there is still 

hope that though you hold the bar like a life raft

when your guard is

down that it is a good time to get it up

and the nights tale that will be told in the end

of your consent will be

his right to share as the court

of his past has told him all his life