If something is possible
if it could have happened
then that is of interest

to neighbours and girlfriends
And the men who pick up
on some of it are quick

to pass judgment
because no one is innocent
so it must be true

When a woman turns out
to have been home alone
she may have had visitors

and been seduced into intimacies
and if there are false witnesses
who accuse her -

with titillating details
of a wrinkled dress
and tousled hair

after the description
of a hasty shadow
in her street -

then that can be enough
then she can already be condemned
out of envy