Things I said.

At the grocery store,

the mother of this girl

who had cancer while she

was in high school with me,

skipped me in line

at the deli

while I was buying hot ham

and rolls.

I didn't say anything.

I wrote those words on a post-it,

to remember them-

and put it in my back pocket.

I must have dropped it going south,

because going north,

a friend picked it up,

unknowingly,

and read it aloud,

and corrected the grammar,

and we all laughed

at this weird stranger.

I didn't say anything.