Would You Like to Come in for a Drink?
Ingrid Bergman (Anna) asks Cary Grant (Philip)
at the door to her London digs
in the 1958 film, Indiscreet,
after a convivial evening of conversation and wine.
It’s a pivotal moment; Philip says yes.
This seems like a memory to me,
but I can’t quite pinpoint it.
Would you like to come in for a cup of coffee?
Would you like to come in for a beer?
Would you like to come in?
Cross the threshold;
the vampire invited in;
no stopping him now.
Step over the doorstep.
I want to know you better.
Was I in college?
When I worked at the university?
When I had that job downtown?
Did it really happen to me?
Or was it something I read in a novel?
A movie I saw? A TV show?
Something a friend told me?
Had I assumed I’d been invited in
for different reasons than she really had?
Does this mean what I think it does?