with(out) a doubt- Part 1

2-12-06

Don poked at his pre-cooked rubbery sausage, and the cholesterol-free powdered eggs. Releasing the spores of a mass distributed scent --- known only as “Cisco Food Systems.” The dingy fluorescent lit cafeteria reminded him of one he had eaten in before. Some eighty some years before when he was a grade school boy, at St. Agnes Catholic School. Only back then Cisco did not exist and he enjoyed the fluffy farm ‘made’ eggs of Sister Juliet.

The best part of his breakfast was when he downed his orange juice along with his seemingly endless stubby looking memory pills. A well-practiced pattern Don would perform, and then mozy back to his quarters to be greeted by his favorite magazine.

Laying on the pulled taught comforter on his single mattress was his favorite issue of popular mechanics magazine. Every time his mind interpreted the pages of the eighty-page magazine, it was as if it was the very first time he read it. Don would spend hours reading the April 26 1998 issue on future fighter planes. He would marvel at the advances in aviation technology and think back to his war days in the pacific, the only thing he seemed to remember.