Monologue Mania: Monologue Mania Day # ? The Bread Not Taken by Janet S. Tiger (c) for Mar. 29, 2019

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Monologue Mania Day # ? The Bread Not Taken by Janet S. Tiger (c) for Mar. 29, 2019

The Bread Not Taken

by Janet S. Tiger
(c) 2019 all rights reserved tigerteam1@gmail.com

A sadness comes to all. Tonight, it came to me.

My sister

A secret

Held for years

Suddenly revealed

The shame

The horror

My sister knows I have a strange desire.

Because of this desire.....my life is different. Better.

But she does not understand

She will never understand .....this desire

The desire is...... for those things.....free.

She feels that obtaining things one has no use for is useless.

I beg to disagree.

Actually, mostly I argue.

But tonight, she informed me that she lives in a place where, every week, in the community room, an anonymous person deposits ......free bread.

That's right, free! No cost! So what if it' s almost expired? I don't care because free is free!

What day does it come? I ask. Monday? Saturday?

She will not tell me.

She is cruel.

I will call to find out!

She says she will tell everyone not to tell me!

Do I need this bread? No.

I tell her.....I could give it to others.

She laughs. You are busy she says to me. Why spend time you don't have giving away bread to other people who don't need it either?

I cry to her......You will never understand!

I am furious! She has lived in this place for over four years and never told me! And she knew I would have taken the bread, enjoyed the bread....ok., I would have enjoyed giving the bread to others, whether they wanted it or not....but why? Why did she keep this valued information from me, her only sister?

We laugh until we are crying.

And then she makes me laugh more.......because she tells me......there is now, started recently.......also....free vegetables!

I am even madder, which makes us laugh more.......

Because she tells me ....surprise twist in the story!....she did take some of the vegetables, ok, one zucchini.

Only one! I am horrified again !

Yes, one, she tells me, but it was a big one, and it lasted three weeks!

At least she availed herself of the free.

But I am still mad about about the four years

And then she says it is a special poetic justice......

The bread not taken

I almost wet my pants.

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ps -An apology to Robert Frost!

For my readers, thank you for your patience, and now, a question

Which is a better title - The Bread Not Taken

or The Loaf Not Taken

Thanks for input!

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