#29 Peanut Butter + Jelly Sandwich
Nothing special lunch
Everyday Lunch
Default lunch.
Make it without thinking lunch.
No mess to clean up after eating it lunch.
Years of practice getting the proportions exactly right lunch.
Gustatory memory explosions when I’m having a quiet day lunch.
My entire childhood lunch.
Reminder of where I came from no matter where I find myself lunch.
Cheap enough that I can change my plans for lunch lunch.
Won’t need to be refrigerated lunch.
Travels well and doesn’t make a mess lunch.
A memory and an idea in every bite lunch.
Satisfying because of it’s history lunch.
I don’t know why I still love it but I do lunch.
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#30 Sunrise on the Last Day
On my way home I feel the last kiss
of the sun as it sets,
a heated reminder that my search to find
a restful morning is only hours away.
I have spent so much time
looking for a place to see that sunrise from.
I’m ill equipped to create the tranquil night’s sleep
necessary to make it out in time to rest through the sunrise.
By the time I’m up, no hill high enough to see it
has enough room left for me
to get comfortable without fighting
my way overtop of other people
who just want to see the same sunrise.
Instead I catch glimpses of that light
spilling down the sides of buildings
across from my office window,
pinpoints of brilliant reflecting light
leaving sunspots in my vision the rest of day.
