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postman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nby Jack Walters<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/span> i hadn\u2019t time to stick around and ask<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" postman by Jack Walters i am a forger, Replaced, names and dates are a specialty. a burden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[751,754,5,4,752,3,753],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","tag-jack-walters","tag-local-voice","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-postman","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ni am a forger,<\/span>
\nReplaced, names and dates are a specialty.<\/span>
\na burden brings fire<\/span>
\nafter the post man is late on his route.<\/span>
\nit was Chinaski<\/span>
\nno wonder he\u2019s hung over today too.<\/span>
\nas it rained, dogs bit<\/span>
\nand mud smeared \u2018cross his uniform at dawn.<\/span><\/p>\n
\ni felt bothersome<\/span>
\nhad i stopped him, more behind he would be<\/span>
\nin stabbing letters.<\/span>
\nan outline of a flask shown in his pants<\/span>
\nbut he had no time<\/span>
\nto talk but he would swig as he stabbed names<\/span>
\ninto tin boxes<\/span><\/p>\n