Winn Dixie Ring

The summer when I was 6 years old I saw her for the first time.

She was wearing a white denim jacket and roller-skates.

I hid in a bush so I could watch her unobtrusively

And when we made friends three days later (which seemed like an eternity to me)

I asked her if shed marry me one day

With a Winn Dixie ring

In a plastic bubble was the wire setting

And in that wire setting was a plastic stone

Maybe a ruby

Or something like that

All that I remember is that she told me no.

And when we met up twelve years later (which seems like an eternity to me)

She told me that she still remembers

And she still has

the Winn Dixie ring.