first base forever

Foreplay is fine. And 
one should always clue 
to the other's cues, to go on
- if I am one. And I am. 
And,
she is too.

But we know
between us  
the worth of a dalliance. 

This 
here, 
now
what we do,

is no perfunctory stone. 

To skip lightly across, 
or entirely 
on the way to go
jump in a like. Take 
up kite flying instead! 
If that's your leer - 
long string, short pier. 
For we are long peers 
and gaze,
and approach,
and consummation is 

a step itself
which can be placed 
in many ways.