egg salad sandwich

i grew up on

wonder bread and  

crudely cut slabs

of bologna

swiped with french's yellow

mustard.

then there was peanut butter

and jelly, washed down

with whole milk, of course.

and then the  rare but gourmet

sandwich of egg or

tuna salad which

involved parental cooking,

a bowl,

a knife, a fork.

a delicate affair needing

a napkin or sleeve

with which to wipe

one's mouth.