Avoidance Of Doubt

For the avoidance of doubt,
When I said would you like to
come in for a drink, I pretty
much meant sex, although the
drink might have been nice too.

For the avoidance of doubt,
When you didn’t reply to my
email, asking you out,
Did you mean no?

For the avoidance of doubt,
When you said in the strip bar
that you really wanted to
sleep with me, but couldn’t
(girlfriend), Was it so?

For the avoidance of doubt,
When your Californian colleague
told me you’d split up with your
girlfriend and said I should call
you, what would have happened?

For the avoidance of doubt,
Are you a thing that never was,
Or a thing that never existed,
Or a real person who could manifest still?

Is the fiction of my love for you
like my fear of spiders:
easy enough to cure,
but at my peril.