QOTD: Words Don't Cook Rice
- William Estep
- Qotd
- November 20, 2014
Table of Contents
Words Don’t Cook Rice.
Ten Year Plan
Words Don’t Cook Rice.
Andrew Bjorklund and Ellie Wold have known they would wed since grade school. Two years before Ellie graduated, her family moved to a different community. Her father made the decision to further his furniture manufacturing business. It was only an hour away by train, but it may as well have been a thousand miles. Andrew and Ellie had to content themselves with staying in touch by letter. Finally, Ellie would graduate in May, and they planned to marry in June.
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In small boxes and cubbyholes,
Arcane bits of the past
Whisper the names of old friends
And hum old songs.In files, yellowed paper and faded handwriting.
Checks, receipts, manual for a long gone kitchen appliance,
To do’s and to don’ts,
Old addresses and old loves,
Old projects, old degrees, flight logs
And pictures of Navy subs.Perhaps on the computer,
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Etched on platters, matters of drive;
Work and toil, man and machine.