A Poem for the Postman
(In which I visit the post office to mail a package.)Fly, fly, fly away,
Gerald, Monday make it so!
Seven and seven,
Fourteen rounds, banded to go.
Exies,
X & Y-sies.
Let there be no Letdown,
Beautiful or otherwise.
Fly, I must be off,
On journeys of my own.
So Monday is the day,
Pinehurst you say, “That’ll be $2.49.”
When It Falls,
There Will Be Light.
So Move Along,
Fourteen rounds move along.
Fly, fly rain or shine,
Monday, you said.
A garage awaits,
And I’ve paid my dime.
Hooba,
Hooba’s tanked.
I don’t care,
Get it there!
Fly, fly like you promised,
Or there’ll be no Cuties.
There’ll be no Cuties in Cabs,
Or Inertia anywhere.
Gerald, don’t disappoint,
Tuesday won’t do.
You can do it I know,
My Soul’s Core says you can.
Fly, fly, fly, fly,
On And On.
Twenty times The Reason,
Fly, fly, fly, fly.
posted by Yakimaniac at 11:46 PM
12 Comments:
Oh boy! It sounds like I'm going to get some mail that isn't a bill! Plus, I loved the poem. This is going to be my day.
But, I have to say, I've never even heard of one group you've been speaking of as of late.
Do you have any Mitch Miller?
Sorry, Herb Alpert and Petula Clark I have none. Sometime after Kurt Cobain died a studly clerk at Nordstrom gave my son a Doc Marten compilation CD of weirdly alternative music (Jimmy Eat World, Radio Head, Garbage, Oasis, etc.). He thought studly was cool and the music too. I was hooked and more than a little upset that I had missed the Grunge wave here in my own backyard. About that time I discovered MP3 downloading and the rest, as they say, is history. I made up for lost time with a vengeance.
I hope you enjoy it. Most but not all is alternative. I’d like a full report. Even the stuff you don’t like. This could be the start of something big. And maybe even the YB will be reformed, modernized and simonized.
If the package doesn't show on Monday, I'm calling Gerald.
yakman,
take out the capital letters and the punctuation and tell me this was ee cummings and i would believe it i can almost see you standing in a coffee shop and reading your poetry to doby and maynard g krebs
What in the heck are you people talking about?
Peter will tell us when his package arrives!
Now that I have had the opportunity to read your poem more than a few times and put almost all of your words into context I have become a real fan!
Hoopeston, my kids have their CD's
In fact, it seems we listen to pretty much the same music in our house that you do. My eldest daughter just went to an Imogine Heap concert.
Yak we too are working on the YB.
Happy Memorial Day (That doesn't sound right?)
Typing Error: Hoopastank
Ah! Very good! I listen to my alternative collection at my office and in my headphones as I work in the yard. Mrs. Yak can’t take all the screaming so we listen to her more sedate golden oldies in the house. I also listen to alt stuff in my SUV as I go between work sites. I crank the volume up to ear splitting so I can’t hear the homeless meth-addicts rapping on my windows at stoplights begging for spare change.
Make sure the kids have Switchfoot and Newsboys in their iTunes playlist. Excellent Christian Alt Rock.
Dear Yak, Thank you they do have those groups in their I Pods. My youngest daughter went to a concert Monday night Rocket Summer,Paramour and Nightmare.She said it was really fun.
By the way do you have XM radio? Mrs. Yak would love it, lot's of oldies stations. Shilohman would love the Celtic station. We all know what YB listens to on his.
I love it all. (except Rap)
I listen to spanish stations to help keep up my spanish.
It's hard to listen to Mariachis in my car because I just want to get up and dance.
SYS
XM radio IS great! I got satellite radio when I bought my new car last summer. I somehow landed on the black gospel station and couldn't turn it off. Felt like "I been to church" every time I drove to work! Lord have mercy!
Mrs. Yak
I love that station too!!!!! I have always wanted to be black on sundays so I could blend in at a gospel church. I truly believe wearing a big hat to church should be dress code. We must speak to the SC and Shilohman about this.
The YB his wife and I would also like to institute another tenet, arranged marriages. Their son and my daughter would be an excellent match. We better hurry they are getting older much too quickly.
SYS
P.S. Have you checked out channel 75(Starbucks) and 76?(fine tuning)
S
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