Email (August)

One never opened letters with ‘Hi!’ But ‘Dear’ has gone the way of formality, simply not familiar enough. We have to be fresh. Etiquette of letter-writing frays at the edges. The attachment won’t open, would you please re-send in body of email. ‘Please’ if you’re lucky. The body is that hundred miles of empty space after the cursor. Aptly named for the jigger we must re-position when words go tut-tut zig-zag red-line. Why not ‘light-years’ of email? Emoticons pop up when irony fails; they replace grammar. Emails aren’t notes, each dated year, August, right down to the micro-second. Unsigned. Send.