"What are you doing?"
appears on my office email,
as if I should know
who it is
who is sending me the message
and why, though for all the months
we have worked together,
she's still a stranger to me,
this is the first time she sent me
a message here,
and I respond with "Hello,"
and that I'm just finishing up my work,
when she complains,
her having to wait to leave,
"Bites" and
wants to know if I need a drink
as much as she does
and suggests we go
get one
together once we get free.
I can't, I tell her, I still have work to do,
a meeting to cover,
I can almost see her questioning
eyebrows rise with
her next message,
her schedule
different from mine,
my day won't end when hers does,
telling me how bored she is
and suggests I come get
a drink with her anyway,
and when I say I
can't she says,
she'll get one at
home, alone,
and asks if it's bad
for someone to drink alone at home.
I feel guilty.
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