Private: Selfish thoughts

I pick her up and we’re on our way to the store.
I turn the volume up on the radio just a little louder 
just enough to drown out my pounding heart
in hopes she takes the hint that I don’t feel like talking.

What he said repeats in my head,
“There’s an energy when you’re single” 

I think about when I was younger…
and how it felt to travel to countries where …