mail time

On Fridays

when I worked a double shift at Shoney's

Glenda
would drive over to my apartment

and check my mail.

She was always looking for the same thing:

a letter from my love

~

Today

I got two

(count them, two!)

emails.

Three, if you want to be technical

but two of them were really the same note; sent in two parts

'cause technology works that way sometimes.

~

The difference between 24 years ago

when the letters flew fast and furious between us

and today is

back then

I had one shot at getting a letter.

One.

If the mail came and there was no letter,

that was it for the day;

I'd start anticipating tomorrow's mail run.

This week

though

I have been checking my e-mail and facebook

like a crazy woman

just waiting for those three little words

You've

Got

Mail

~

One thing that hasn't changed

after all these years:

the thrill I feel

seeing

Tyler -------

in the return address