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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 4178 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Sandwiches Didi Menendez Que facil la tenia papi. Cuando se queria olvidar de sus responsibilidades, se volvia loco. My mother has forgotten how to make sandwiches. She has forgotten other things too, but forgetting how to make a sandwich is the straw - Mother's back is broken- not by her daughters stepping on cracks - La factoria lunes a sabados inhaling all those threads hunched over a singer sewing machine. Monday through Saturday she'd brown bag sandwiches for me, my sister, for her and for papi when he was not crazy and holding a job- Once as a dishwasher - Those were the times he was sane. Who could blame him for choosing to be crazy? Wouldn't you rather be crazy than washing dishes? Sandwiches made of tuna or Sweet Ham and Swiss. Brown bags taken on the bus- the weight of a dead canary. My mother has forgotten how to make sandwiches. She also forgot other things such as how the autopsy revealed peanut butter and jam on white stuck in the esophagus of my father. |
