Breakfast In Bed

For breakfast today I was given a brown paper sack ("lunch sack") that contained one slice of bread, 2 oz of grape jelly, 2 hard boiled eggs, a banana, a double serving size bag of generic cocoa crispies, a styrofoam cereal bowl and a plastic spoon. I always received one eight ounce carton of fat free milk (fairly fresh this morning). This was a relatively good breakfast. On a "bad" breakfast day I might get: one plain "nutri-grain" donut (unsweetened and hardly edible), a bruised and blackened, or freezer burned, or split open banana. (i.e. inedible), a double serving size bag of plain generic rice crispies (no sugar or other sweetener), the bowl and spoon, and one warm and/or sour non-fat milk. Breakfast usually oscillates between these two extremes with a tendency (fortunately) toward the "good" breakfast days. I am fed each morning around 4:00 am (give or take ten minutes I suppose) through a hatch in the door of the cell. Having no place else to sit, I enjoy my meals while sitting on the concrete bunk, "breakfast in bed!" I always appreciate the food I am given and consistently thank the deputy who hands it to me though hatch. I never forget that millions are starving in this world every day.