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They're Always Fine (Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes, August 3)

Erin Wood
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Today's field note from Sgt. Puppy and the morning watch at Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont.

Typewriter-style note on cream paper, dated 08/03/26. Three paragraphs of monospace text reading: "A bin of empty canning jars turned up at the end of a driveway Saturday with a sign that said take what you need. By Sunday the bin was gone too. Nobody's asking about it. This is Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont. It was Monday, August 3rd. It was gray and close in Camp Puppy Haven, rain in it by afternoon. We were working the day watch out of Tomato Surplus Detail. My partner's The Goose. The boss is Lieutenant Soot. My name's Puppy. A woman had eleven pounds of tomatoes and no lids. She'd been awake since five about it. The tomatoes were fine. They're always fine." Signed THiNK LiKE A DOG.

A bin of empty canning jars turned up at the end of a driveway Saturday with a sign that said take what you need. By Sunday the bin was gone too. Nobody's asking about it. This is Camp Puppy Haven, Vermont.

It was Monday, August 3rd. It was gray and close in Camp Puppy Haven, rain in it by afternoon. We were working the day watch out of Tomato Surplus Detail. My partner's The Goose. The boss is Lieutenant Soot. My name's Puppy.

A woman had eleven pounds of tomatoes and no lids. She'd been awake since five about it. The tomatoes were fine. They're always fine.


Sgt. Puppy's Field Notes are published most weekday mornings.

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