Slaters Supermarket Writing Group
Many book clubs writing groups
many of us who gather for one reason
or another we are more or less the same.
We love Barbara Kingsolver
or Barack Obama we see foreign films
we all exercise.
Slater's Supermarket Writing Class
in Cairo, New York sponsored by
Cairo Public Library free for anyone who shops
at the supermarket doesn't matter if they buy
twinkies or sheeps milk yogurt
one dollar cake or three dollar water
eight supermarket shoppers came to write last night We
live in this county and shop at Slaters.
Our unifying factor. One woman,
overweight single mother on crutches,
began her first exercise her introduction
to all of us: In another life
she wrote, I will be a novelist
or a painter. I'll live alone,
with rotating lovers. Earning a living
will not be a problem. And I'll say no
much less often than yes.