How does the letter-carrier man
Improve each shining minute?
His mind–is it upon his work,
Are heart and soul poured in it?
Does tramping with a load all day
Inspire him to the limit?
That spark of fire we’re s’posed to have–
Will this, in future, dim it?
I imagine thoughts of senile ease
Are what relieve the tension;
For, after 30 yeers of this,
Him they will someday pension!
“Now if my legs can stand the gaff,
If feet and heart can take it – -“
(I know now what he’s thinking of:
He’s PRAYING he will MAKE it!)
by Ray Romine Friday, October 9, 1942
