car sandwiches (This is good.)

Published: Thu, 04/10/25

** meryl streep * cotswold * the button * crumbs **

car sandwiches (white plastic cutting board, cherry tomato) This is good. // At no time am I more mother/crone than while making sandwiches in a fast-moving car. // A cutting board is key, and a jaggedy sharp knife that I found in the mud on a portage. (Carolyn in car, wearing seatbelt,cutting bread with very large knife. Cluttered a her feet: container of cherry tomatoes, package of salami, miscellaneous bags. // (carolyn in car slicing cucumbers with large
knife on cutting board in lap.) Big soft rolls, or sometimes, if your name is carolyn, those rectangular seedy crackers.

We whiz past electric poles and gray trees and baby cows and falling-down barns, and I have eight arms holding everything in place and I am step-by-step, in defiance of motion and momentum, making us all something to eat. // (view of sandwich ingredients sliding around on carolyn's lap, from above) cheese — brie or cotswold or sharp cheddar), salami, sliced cukes, cherry tomatoes cut in half // Last week we drove 3,100 miles. // (Carolyn holding down slippery
sandwich while grabbing a handful of greens, looking serious and very much crammed into the passenger seat.) And sometimes greens left over from an absurd restaurant salad.

We visited 4 college campuses (2 of them twice!) and saw and heard many wondrous things. // chunk of Plymouth Rock above door // (woman wearing a miniskirt, many pieces of jewelry, and platform shoes pointing to red "help" button with blue light on top, saying "Campus security will be here within 90 seconds." // asteroids in a hallway (blobby rocks on little stands)

(grand old building and backs of anders, carolyn, and iris's heads surrounded by words at all angles): collaborative, tru— / never cutthroat/ sing the alma mater on these steps / meryl streep lost her virginity under this tree / cried here / ferris wheel / meal swipes per week / bell rings 100 times / they will loan you a suit and an iron! / 2 inches longer than Amherst's // walrus skull in the library) // (anders, carolyn, and iris's faces, eyes have become
twisty spirals, drooly grinning mouths, with words everywhere): INVENTED academic advising! / actual arboretum / so helpful, collab— / 57 maj— / oldest campus bookstore in the world! / every tree is labeled // graveyard in the middle of campus

(carolyn turned around in the car, handing you a big sandwich) // As I write this, Iris is marinating the college decision, and we are home and making our own lunches at zero miles per hour. // (back of grey car with iris, anders, and carolyn inside, "hands off" bumpersticker, and cherry tomatoes bouncing out along the road. In background, very badly drawn little cow saying "moo." )

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