If I met God
I would ask if the almosts
were real or just plot points
to make me think
I was steering
like how I almost
became a homeopath
and married the quiet man
with the beard
or how I almost
moved to Whitehorse
and named him Bose
and the time I almost
went for it
and then didn’t
if God could arrange it
I would ask
to see the movie
for each one
the unspooling of those fates
I extinguished
the taste of all those lives
I didn’t chew.