I Could be Ready in Minutes

Daily writing prompt

Create an emergency preparedness plan.

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Long underwear, stitched with instructions for fire-starting, shelter-making, first aid, self-defense, and eating things that grow in the wild. Scrabble tiles in a pouch to play or spell out what I need, assuming I’ll be deaf and the emergency happens before I finish ASL class.

Two loaves of banana bread and an empty milk bottle filled with unsweetened black tea. Tylenol. Toilet paper in pre-folded wads in all my pockets.

Two cans of pork and beans (it worked for Hemingway).

A proper hat and maybe the axe from the back hall. A heavy belt from which to hang my smaller iron frying pan. My name written in permanent marker on my arm. A spoon.

My cat in my knapsack and my dog at my heels.