Post

The post is late. I think of Auden’s line  -
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?  -
beyond unbeatable (Just clip and sign!)
cheap loans, and credit; sales of cut-price cotton;
new gas suppliers; yet more desperate calls
for charity. I’m sure they won’t desert
my small suppor - reminders, bills and all
the get-rich-quick schemes, every one a cert.

The morning drifts, slips sideways, shapeless, dull.
Forgotten. Not a letter from a friend;
no postcards; no one waving back;  a lull
in cheerfulness. First shadow of the end.
The day’s washed out. On such a little thing
this broken ship has foundered on the rocks.
The postman’s late - there’s nothing he can bring.

And then a rattling snap: the letter box.

D. A. Prince

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