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Postal Worker
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The supervisor

counts the seconds

as you wipe

the crumbs from your

face

and return

to your post.

 

Your hands--

anonymous

pedestrian

as the stream of letters

you feed to the

ravenous federal machine.

 

Your eyes

dead for years

dimmed by manilla

the bland white

of mail

pockmarked with zipcodes

return to sender.

 

Breathing the stale air

of a cavernous annex

 

Thankful

for your numbness

the regimentation

your suspended freedom--

 

From

the violence

of your thoughts.


 


* published in Poetry Motel ( Wallpaper Series)
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 Reviews of "Postal Worker"
Reviewed by anne cunningham
Reviewed on February 12, 2004
this had that uncomfortably numb feeling to it.
Reviewed by Anna Marie Fritz (Reader)
Reviewed on February 12, 2004
My brother has been a postal worker for many years.
I well understand this cleverly expressed set of verses!
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