advertisements,
bills,
thank you cards,
graduation announcements,
alumni news,
requests for church donations,
magazines,
travel ads,
realtor brochures,
insurance reports,
medical invoices,

so this is the stuff
of my generation,
this is what we wait for
the mailman to deliver,
racing to the mailbox
as soon as he passes?

funny, how the days
when the mailbox held
a loveletter
I was much too busy
living
than to watch
for the mailman