Poem #1: I am a new mail carrier

August 31, 2020

I am a new mail carrier, and I don't have a route of my own yet.
On being a new mail carrier: routes, seniority, and ad-supported business models.

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My brother is a letter carrier for the United States Post Office. Every day, he walks around and puts mail into slots on people's houses. He also writes poetry.

Post Office Poems is a series of short meditations on existing in your body in the real world, the joys and tragedies of bureaucracy, and The Mail.

Take a moment with us to consider the glue that holds our mutual lives together: the discount glue, that is only sort of sticky, that you can't get off your shirt.

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