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(after The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance) My Year in the US Postal Service
My Year in the US Postal Service
Blah, blah, blah.
Note --- My, therefore narrator first and foremost. Year, therefore narrator has an out. US Postal Service, therefore a dead end job (in the narrator's eyes); therefore, common workers; therefore, too stupid to speak for themselves; therefore, the importance of the narrator the poet. Blah, therefore nothing to say. Blah, blah, blah, therefore the narrator's clever snotty comment means he doesn't realise he has nothing to say.
Blah, blah, blah.
Note --- My, therefore narrator first and foremost. Year, therefore narrator has an out. US Postal Service, therefore a dead end job (in the narrator's eyes); therefore, common workers; therefore, too stupid to speak for themselves; therefore, the importance of the narrator the poet. Blah, therefore nothing to say. Blah, blah, blah, therefore the narrator's clever snotty comment means he doesn't realise he has nothing to say.
Published 13th Sep 2020
Author's Note
I thought Pound's idea of the notes to the poem being a part of the poem as illustrated here https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48687/the-jewel-stairs-grievance (or at least that was my interpretation) was interesting. This is my interpretation of it.
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