There’s Nothing Special About a Year
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This exercise
of deleting a year’s worth of emails
that I do
every January
so I only keep
five years’ worth
of notices of library books ready to be picked up
packages shipped, delayed, delivered
questions I have no recollection of asking or answering
communications mostly mundane
because everything
is mostly mundane
though so important at the time
on the day
that I didn’t delete them right away
but saved them
until the first day
of year six.
That doesn’t sound like much of a fresh start.
Does it?
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Philip Athans
Editor and author Philip Athans has been a driving force behind varied media including Alternative fiction & poetry magazine and Wizards of the Coast. He lives and works in the Pacific Northwest.
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