Mail-fail

Stacks of envelopes I retrieve from the mail

Wondering why I receive paper communication on this scale

Too many organizations vie for my purse-strings

But I’ve set up online payments for the most important things

At the end of an exhausting work day

Sifting through snail-mail seems a ridiculous way

To spend my evening, besides, mental capacity I lack

To read through each letter in this huge stack

So my mind burdened by an overload of information

Lets me take the easy way out in resignation

And I end up discarding summarily

Almost everything, unless my eyes happen to see

Something I should keep, to scan at a later date

Otherwise being shredded is my paper-mail’s fate…

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Since most mail is inconsequential, my audacity

At throwing everything away is challenged infrequently

Every once in a while I miss a crucial payment

Or I miss the deadline for something imminent

For the next few days diligently through all mail I go

Before reverting to my usual habit of “ignore and throw”