Is there any way to eat a doughnut that isn't totally filthy? A plump luscious sphere of deep fried dough sits in front of me. Begging for my tongue, my lips, my teeth to penetrate the sugar-dusted skin and reveal the secret chamber oozing, yearning outward.
I bite; it's an immersion, more than consumption. That glistening dark golden skin against my lips, around my mouth. A little more pressure, and I have broken through; crème brûlée, so thick, velvety and laden with the sweet and the saline, spurts onto my tongue.
This cream, so generous, wilful, eager to escape the confines of that dark soft space; so irrepressible, it escapes even my greedy mouth. Dollops fall down. A brief tumble down my chin to find a resting place on my left breast. Lustrous pearls glistern on the pale skin, just shy of my silk shirt.
"Here, take this." You - the reason why I chose this table, the reason why I chose to eat this doughnut with a calculatedly indecent gluttony - you lean towards me from the neighbouring table, offering a paper napkin.