cheese knives

 it was a day off for me, and one thing i did was go to a member event in the evening at a writer organization. i noticed that there was cheese but it meant slicing it yourself. i like doing these events as one can show off your own material. i did another poem i had just written. i was told after it was done by the event coordinator how i was the inspiration behind releasing the open-mic lineup in advance. it was emailed to us. i was on near the end, seventeen were signed up and i was fourteen. one left early, but two more were added. the final one wrote about visiting places that were familiar to me. this was musee mechanique in san francisco, and aragon ballroom in chicago. then i went over to the nearby gas station and got a little godfather's pizza and took the light rail home. later on i went on a walk and found 1 dollar 79 cents. i went to the liquor store and got a can of sierra nevada, and earlier in the week got a can of spiral, so now seven beers are waiting. i got a few things done on my day off, went to the post office and dropped off a card going to a TV station, their annual card exchange. one order was picked up. then it was on to a walgreen where i dumped a bottle of unwanted, expired pills in a bin. i recall seeing it when i was there for a covid shot. and i printed some pictures that were pulled from facebook and put onto a zip drive, nine in all. and i spent time cooking lunch for a change, a box of macaroni and cheese that i had picked up a while back. i cut up a can of spam to put in it.