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Title:       Stamps
Date:        2024-04-15
Link:        https://spool-five.com/poetry/2024_apr15_stamps/
Word Count:  142
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> Today, we’d like to encourage you to take a look at @StampsBot, and
> become inspired by the wide, wonderful, and sometimes wacky world of
> postage stamps. For example, while it certainly makes sense that China
> would issue a stamp featuring a panda, it’s less clear to us why the
> Isle of Man should feel the need to honor 2001: A Space Odyssey in stamp
> form. From Romanian mushrooms to Sudanese weavers to the Marshall Islands
> getting far too excited over personal computing, stamps are a quasi-lyrical,
> quasi-bizarre look into what different cultures (or at least their postal
> authorities) hold dear.


Licks, stamps and turns over 
checks address, approaches teller 

Lilies drifting in her mind 
cross stream 
and against the tide 

Purple marrow in the bones 
and a flighty mind 

Like cans escaping their tow 
behind a wedding car