A bit odd
Don't you think
The Saturday news
On
A Thursday evening
The internet’s strange
A purveyor of what
Right now is happening
Before it's happened, then
Bringing news half
A week after the event
My mother's letters
They too were often
A week or so
In the writing
Then a few days more
Until she caught the post
Except those times
When the advertisement for
The Shackleton High Chair
Or the flyer for the
Dolphin Walk in Shower Bath
Took her eye
Surprised most of all were
The younger generation
Odd that we should think
That desire belongs to youth
Or that we are uneasy
As the older ones share passions disease
Also they are happy, with the advertised
Collections, of China Dolls
And Porcelain Thimbles
Also that Saturday's post
And the other days news
Can be left unopened
On the sideboard; laying beside
The well thumbed
Weekend supplements
As the repeats
Of the previous repeats
Are replayed, over and over
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