Wooden Boy: Now We Are Beginning

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A peanut butter and jelly sandwich, made with Skippy peanut butter and Welch's grape jelly on white bread: photo by Evan-Amos, 11 November 2010

I'm watching a man chewing a sandwich vigourously outside the window. He closes his eyes as he eats. What is happening inside his head? Is this what pleasure looks like?

He is a large man with much roundness to him.

Workman munching a sandwich while operating a drilling machine, Fort Loudon Dam, Tennessee Valley Authority: photo by Jack Delano, August 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Ship repairers at Surrey Docks, England, making sandwiches for their lunch from American canned meat: photographer unknown: official British photo, between 1940 and 1946  (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Production. Milling machines and machine castings. Not everybody eats in the company restaurants. These big, slabby Dagwood sandwiches taste just as good at the plant as they do in the kitchen. Location: a large Midwest machine tool factory: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, January 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. Two maintenance men relax for sandwiches and coffee during their lunch hours at a plant of the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation: photo by Alfred T. Palmer, February 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

Wooden Boy: Now We Are Beginning, from The Little Wooden Boy, 28 April 2011