NO POSTAGE
NECESSARY
IF MAILED
IN THE
UNITED STATES
Business Reply Mail
no postage necessary
he was tempted
to enclose no postage necessary envelopes in with his letters
he didnt worry about incurring
postage for letters written him hed mean the envelopes as black comedy as dismal bitter jokes rarely did anyone reply to his
lettershis entreats his simple communication sharing
he fed a one-way machine
he had become a one-way
machine to offset and minimise any hurt mete by not receiving replies to the queries
in his handwritten letters
a defense
a rationale
he explained that when he wrote he vicariously
spent time with his family and friends
one
could suppose he brought it on himself by steadfastly refusing to staylive his
life in the Midwest where his family and friends had remained resided
had he anticipated the years of
quiet ignoring
he still would have left
their unsayingtheir no-replies
left him to have his way with them not caring whether or not he hurt their feelings bruised their sensibilities
he was brutally honest
even insult didnt provoke communication
they were definitely cut from a
cloth unlike his
their absence provoked difficult thoughts
their carelessness invoked subtle
violent thought
as screaming in an echo chamber incites one
knowingly spilling spewing ones ire an spleen an venom
get the shit out of ones system
his body naturally excreted its poison
the poison in his mind needed to be
evacuated too
he just had to work to do it
like penance
like absolution
though he didnt need a middleman
1534, Sunday,
8 4. 18
1249, Sunday,
15 4. 18
