time travel

if you could go back into time

she asks

me, drinking her third apple

martini, what year, what era,

what time would you go back

to? say you had a one shot

at going and coming back.

i clink her glass with mine

and say. hmmm. good question

my dear. very good question.

i tell her four years ago

and give her the exact date,

the exact time.

that's it, she says, you wouldn't

go back to the cave man days,

or medieval times,

or biblical times.

nah. four years, six days, and

nine hours ago.

i'd go back to that and make

things right by swiping left.