Ham and Cheese on Rye

Ham and Cheese on Rye
If I live on to old age, I wonder if I’ll remember these days and how I ate my mother’s leftover sandwiches. For the record, they are ham and cheese on rye, with sweet pickles, lettuce, and mayonnaise, and sometimes yellow mustard. I wonder if I’ll remember how she never tired of them, and asked countless times if they were my invention. Ham and cheese on rye, the answer to every question. Hello, morning sky, good-bye, sad reflection. *October 28, 2006* Previous Entry Next Entry Return to Songs and Letters About the Author	Many of the poems on this site are available in print editions. Main Page Author’s Note Background Notebook A Listening Thing Among the Living No Time to Cut My Hair One Hand Clapping Songs and Letters Collected Poems Early Short Stories Armenian Translations Cosmopsis Print Editions Interviews News and Reviews Highly Recommended Let’s Eat Favorite Books & Authors Useless Information Conversation E-mail & Parting Thoughts Flippantly Answered Questions
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