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Postal Worker by Doug Holder Thursday, February 12, 2004 Not rated by the Author. Share Print Save Become a Fan
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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Reviewed by anne cunningham	2/12/2004

this had that uncomfortably numb feeling to it.




Reviewed by Anna Marie Fritz	2/12/2004

My brother has been a postal worker for many years. I well understand this cleverly expressed set of verses!