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It's interesting you take gender issues from the poem, I never even hought about it when I was writing it, you have a good point though and I like looking at my so-called works through the eyes of someone else. And yes you are correct that the speaker could be any gender. What I took out of this poem, and based most of the writing on, is something like a 'dull date'. The speaker probably has better places to be than this coffee shop in the first place, and is pretty off-put that the speaker's date won't stop talking.