"You Bought Him a Coke" by Amy Lipman

Last onesat the winery,in rocking chairs,we watchedthe early dusk, andeveryone leaving.I asked if you wantedsomething from the gas station.You didn't, but I wantedto get away from youso I walkeddown the roadand used yourcredit cardto buy myselfsome licorice.When the tow truckcame,you bought the drivera Coke,and I was jealousof you two chattingthe whole way home.Amy Lipman is an MFA poetry candidate at Columbia College. She lives in Chicago.