Even If She Said Yes Poem by Robert Rorabeck

Bicycles of little boys trick or treat all day,
Trick or treat all year:
I happen to think about the blond headed mother who
Came in one or two days ago:
If she comes back I will ask her out and it will be
The first date I’ve been on in seven years-
And I plan to take her to walmart to buy bicycles and
Then drive off with her near the sea,
And ditch the car- and just ride bicycles with her for
Our first date- If we have to, I would take her to
A really nice restaurant;
And if I have to, I’d buy her a whole bunch of corpulent
Flowers-hyacinths and whatnots,
But I’d rather steal them from all the insouciant though
Comely gardens of suburbia;
And now it’s not even ten o’clock and there’s not
Even a customer,
And the clouds are just visible though it being well past
Crepuscule, and I am the only man alive,
And she is the only woman alive- and we are tremulous
In our gardens of plum tree and spikenard;
And if there was a second date, I’d take her to Atlantis
And practice the forgotten art of roller-skating,
And make heaven a place on earth-
But I doubt it’s there anymore-
Even if she said yes.