you never know what
                the next day will bring,
but, like today,
   i became disappointed
   and the amount
       of letters i received
   by mail...
in the past 10 years,
   i received only bank
statements,
     alumni magazines from
edinburgh and u.c.l.,
          oh, and those two
letters (+ a book) from a
girl from warsaw...
but today?
      i look at the counter
and see this letter for me...
      but that's the odd thing,
i've never had contact
   with harrington & byrne:
hanover sq., mayfair
                            (W1S 1BN)...
the **** do they want
i thought while opening
the envelope...
       ah... i knew it, *******...
    buying the 1840
penny black postage stamp
with queen victoria aged 15,
for a "mere"
one hundred and twenty
quid...
   but that's good...
         they also sell gold & silver
coins...
     i'll phone them up
  or write to them, and ask them
   about my collection
      of foreign currency -
you never know,
     those polish banknotes
   from the inflation period
prior to the collapse of the soviet
union might be worth
  something akin
  to the excess of zeroes written
on them;
****, you think i'd be making
this up googling the brand?
         like i said...
  **** me... my email account is
even better...
                  i have
          about a total of 20 emails
in it...
        either i'm covert,
  or invisible,
     or "worse" still,
          a persona non grata;
        mmm...                          bliss!
saying that: it's nice to receive
the most random letters...
                 ACTUAL PAPER!
sooner or later, you'll get perverts
roaming the streets,
     with a sheet of paper
in their hand... rubbing it between
their fingers...
    as you'll get those perverts
sniffing ink-cartridge, once loaded
    into fountain-pens -
   can you remember the days
of chalk & blackboards?