Author: Jackie Pick

Jackie Pick is a former teacher and current writer living in the Chicago area. She is a contributing author to multiple anthologies, including Multiples Illuminated, So Glad They Told Me: Women Get Real about Motherhood, Here in the Middle, as well as the and the literary magazines The Sun and Selfish. She received Honorable Mention from the Mark Twain House and Museum for her entry in the Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Competition. Jackie is a contributing writer at Humor Outcasts, and her essays have been featured on various online sites including McSweeney's, Belladonna Comedy, Mamalode, The HerStories Project, and Scary Mommy. A graduate of the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, Jackie is co-creator and co-writer of the award-winning short film Fixed Up, and a proud member of the 2017 Chicago cast of Listen To Your Mother.

A Prayer For Those Moving Away

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As you fly from our lake shores

and say goodbye to old friends

may you enjoy as many smiles

as you created here.


May your new home

contain all the dreams you’re chasing.

May your new home

come to realize what we know;

That you’re great,

That you’re hilarious,

That you’re better than any one city.

Come back to us

when you’re homesick

Come back to us

to brag and be a famous dick

Come back to us

Just to

Come back to us.

Your home, Your friends, Your theaters

will still be here.

Good luck, fare well

they’re lucky to have you.

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