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If memory serves me writing is meet and greet

dear so-and-so, say all the best, then kind regards, neat:

the needs to know, all the news that’s fit to repeat

our moods and conditions writ firmly and fleet.

The presenting issue being the constant heat

from excess unsolicited missives replete

with untoward charms, false alarms, requests effete

and dodgy accounts sinister or obsolete.

The spam somehow endless, the junk mail panel beat

breaks weekly new records like a steroid athlete,

a nebulous pile-up of digital concrete.

Our view thus blotted with what hard drives secrete

we scour the in-tray for letters friendly and sweet -

our hours of day wasted clicking Delete.