Event Details
Dates
13/11/2008 – 13/11/2008
Some Days It’s A Love Story
Jason Irwin
At P & G Grocery the dairy manager
has a Bachelor’s in Economics
and a pulled groin
from lifting crates of milk.
He’s been writing the first chapter to a novel
for six years.
Some days it’s a love story,
some days a comedy,
about people in a small town,
like the guy in aisle eight who fits
all he learned from his father
into his right hand and smacks his son
for asking too many questions,
or the cashier at express
who flirts with the younger bank teller
who comes in every day for lunch,
handing him change she smiles,
avoids his eyes and remembers
it’s been over two years
since she’s been kissed.
Outside, a factory worker, fresh
off the midnight trick
climbs into a beat up Chevy,
opens a can of Milwaukee’s Best
he bought for breakfast, takes a sip,
sets it between his legs, keys the ignition
and thinks about the day his wife left
complaining he was the one
who changed.
Jason Irwin grew up in a small town near Buffalo, NY. In 2006 he won the 2006/2007 Transcontinental Poetry Award for a 1st book of poetry Watering the Dead by Pavement Saw Press. He has had poems published in various US journals including Lumina, Sycamore Review, Confrontation, Miller’s Pond, Pearl, & Slipstream. He is a 2004 graduate of the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College and currently work as an office temp in Pittsburgh
