postcards

who reads postcards? i do
saved a boxful from the days
when communication
was a timorous link
tenuous, tentative
mostly wish-you-were-heres
but there are the odd few
defying the trend
generally would glance
at the sepia print
read the signature
and replace it in the box

one from a long lost friend
that i found had two words
admonishing me get lost
am still here, astray
the friend? don't know