well said, Shah!
bw
SallyE
on 24/11/03 3:59 am, c s shah at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> The Unwanted Lot (Junk Mail)
>
> You are welcome nowhere
> but you reach everywhere,
> visiting many places at a time,
> O junky, of rebellious kind!
>
> You fill my letterbox of hopes
> with disappointing regularity,
> in your ungainly heap, I search
> the message of my familiarity.
>
> I wonder, why you have chosen me
> without any formal invitation;
> how long should I refuse you
> in distaste, like a chronic infection!
>
> Why are you so sure of your form,
> or proud of your intellectual clone?
> with full knowledge, you continue
> to enter the no-entry zone.
>
> I was puzzled at your haughtiness
> and initially sent many a rejoinder,
> but soon realized my foolishness:
> it was like adding but fuel to fire.
>
> Now I welcome you in indifference;
> come and sit on my computer head,
> I treat you like insignificant nuisance,
> like mosquitoes buzzing around the net.
> --
>
> c s shah
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