2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Dreaming in Deli

Author: 
M'EL
Thursday, May 26, 2022

I dreamed that I was in an intensive care unit.  I heard the doctor say “We are running out of treatments”. “Although this is still an experimental therapy, perhaps an egg cream infusion using an IV will work.”  “It is worth a try”,  but there was a critical shortage of Fox’s U Bet.  The last words I heard before awakening were “maybe pastrami poultices with mustard will be a cure”.