Alexander Kushner

Alexander Kushner * * * The envelope is strange, so strange… It even looks like it’s homemade, The postmark is smeared and foggy, With last week’s date. And the stamp looks strange – it’s empty, With a blurred image of some backwater: Neither the president of Uruguay, Nor the Thames is on the stamp, just some odd bush. And the letters stand so closely to each other, That it’s clear – the handwriting is altered. At the bottom, as you might guess, The return address is not indicated.