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it is worth a stamp to mail a letter
that will arrive @its destination in a timely fashion
delivered by a professional person
It is good to send books via BOOK RATE
that eventually arrive(slow as time
to delight perfect strangers
It is good to converse with postal counter staff
even as they shrink in number(and get more stressed
many are still blessed in their intentions
It is good to join the line to employ the services of those
who see the point in a public postal service
and are prepared to construct effective pricing mechanisms
so our epistolary traditions might continue
before said services are effectively stamped out.

CURRENCIES(a basket case
Comparisons suffer.So when you get a yen for a yuan
or even the price of a peso/know what it buys depends
upon who is selling.Every currency pretends to stand for something
Once it represented gold-but gold now far outstrips paper
and is buried as bright bullion in bank vaults
while paper churns out of government printing presses
Pennies worth less than the copper they contain
Same with aluminium smelted in our name
Sure-they all have the heads of government
but they are all in our hands/and we know where the money goes
Canadian coins (like Irish/Australian)are fauna-and art
We hold the old in some esteem/dream Roman coins will resurrect
like Greek! and we will seek a treasure trove
Anglo-Saxon coins in a field of stones.Gold.Diamonds.Dream on!
Notes mean nothing.Mugabe.Zimbabwe.Denominated dollars .
Remember Weimer wheelbarrows Deutschmarks?70s gas prices?
Remember your futures.All currencies relative
Blood simple.The price of families.Feuds.Value is what you ascribe
Reality is a currency depends upon trust.That means us..