crusts
my mother never cut the crusts off my sandwiches. Instead, she told me I was superior for eating them; told me other kids needed their crusts cut off because their moms were bad at making sandwiches, but she wasn't like them and knew how to spread the toppings all the way to the edge of the bread; told me the crust is where all the vitamins are, and the fact that i ate the crusts of my sandwiches while the other kids just ate the middle bread was why i was smarter than them (i was not); told me that not eating the crust is wasting food, and if i didn't eat it then clearly i was ungrateful for everything else in my life and needed to thank her for making such a nice dinner by eating crusts instead. my government never cuts the crusts off my wars.
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