Why I'm Better Than Iowa
by Jason Ashbaugh


Good Morning America
had a contest
if you found
a lover
your lover
in a romantic way
and you wanted to get married
in Times Square
send in your story
they’d judge it and
then select a winner
I sent ours in
you know-
girl meets boy
huddled in the fetal position
in a puddle of rain water
in front of a bar-
she had this army jacket
and when we would go
to her car to smoke
she’d have to stretch
and reach for the handoff
her wrist would slide
out of the sleeve
just a little bit
just a little
and man
she had me
and I didn’t even know it

Never heard back from
Good Morning America
Some couple from Iowa won
I think-
Ice Cream Social and now it’s
Three kids?-
I don’t remember.


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Jason is an Okie that doesn't want to be a delivery man or a home owner or reliable. He would rather be King of the Highway.
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