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.

Supermarket Poetry

I.
Market parking lot
Darwinian driving
Someone’s gonna die.

II.
This cart is attached
Clinging brethren? Or Lovers?
I just want some chips.

III.
There is no good place
To stop and ponder — Oh Where
Is the Honey Aisle?

IV.
Your babes toss items
In your cart. You notice not.
Enjoy the Cheetos

V.
Ceaseless endcaps haunt
Those of us who cannot turn
With faulty-wheeled carts.

VI.
I need assistance!
O Frozen Food Assistance!
Leggo My Eggo.

VII.
Her derriere sways
As she ponders toothbrushes.
Coat made of muppet.

VIII.
I am wearing a
Really stupid hat. Who put
Quinoa in my cart?

IX.
Sixty-five minutes
Carry twelve bags at a time.
Shit. Forgot turkey.