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Who Gets All the Good Mail?
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Who Gets All the Good Mail? |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
Who Gets All the Good Mail? I rarely check my mail, the paper kind that is That some guy, mine has really great legs…for a guy Puts daily in a box on the side of my house. I don’t even know who put that box there I didn’t, I never would have Because I never seem to get the good mail. You know what I mean I don’t get the mail that says. ‘You’ve Won!’ I’ve never gotten a tax refund. It’s been years since I got a letter handwritten by a friend. No gift subscriptions to magazines I love. I don’t remember a ‘Welcome to the Neighborhood!’ I wonder who gets all the good mail? But I checked my mail today Only because someone reminded me And because I suddenly felt bad for that guy Trying to stuff it all in, day after day I’m that codependent, I think about these things. So I checked my mail And it didn’t disappoint me Bills and unsolicited correspondence from nameless PO boxes Wrong names, some wrong addresses Maybe I won’t feel so bad next time The guy's got good legs I’m going to help him build his biceps Stuffing, stuffing…until I check the next time. (I make no claim that this is good poetry. Ha! Only an attempt to write my way out of this funk. Please bear with me…I should be over it soon.) |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
LOL  I barely see my letter carrier!!  Thanks for the laugh!!!! ----------------------------------------------------------- To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world. |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
ROFL!!! this is delightful... and trust me, i don't get any "good mail" either |
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walker Member Elite
since 2001-02-11
Posts 2240Florida |
Mine is a female, she doesn't even get out of her car to deliver the mail. And when there's a car blocking the mailbox, she just keeps driving. So I don't think she has good legs. Talk about lazy! A quarter of a century must pass, for the writer to understand what and why he writes. |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Well shoot....it's as simple as sharing your address.... but since you won't, please check your e-mail!...LOL... funk? What funk! This is not poetic junk! This is life, as we live it! You've got to give, in order to get it! LOL... well done... |
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JLR Senior Member
since 2001-02-04
Posts 1785 |
You guys crack me up...and thanks I needed it! |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
If you want to add to your funk, you're more than welcome to all MY bills! LOL. I enjoyed this. *S* |
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SEA 
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
I live for mail........lol and I never get any.......except the bills....... this is fun........ SEA |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Poetry smoetry. Sometimes we have to write like this (though you're braver than me -- I'd never share it!). And it was fun to read. Cheer up. Mike |
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