joey k poetry

It was your decision
to sit next to me
in the empty coffee shop.
Not my fault for eavesdropping.

The wedding will be wonderful,
this stress is the hard part
but you two will prevail.

He’s talking about Jersey,
not New Jersey,
the island off the English coast.
Apparently it was occupied
by the Nazis.
Who would have known?

She takes her latte with whip,
he takes his without
and I’ll never see them again.