It's Jan and Christmas is well past
I trawl through the vast mass I've stored
Is my filing system flawed?
Monday - let us clear the decks
So much info now collects
That I question if it should be kept
Time for my in-tray to be swept!
We find ourselves on many lists:
Marketing offers we have missed
Promotions tempting us to buy
Friends who mail us to say «Hi!»
No help for it! Time for a purge
Before new messages emerge
With obligations to respond;
Our answers lost in deep beyond.
Meanwhile, snail mail is mostly bills
Or free press – hardly source of thrills
Yet the paper mountain never ceases
Despite computers, it increases!
(c) Poet in the woods 2019
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