did the Unabomber send them
in simple birthday
or fancy holiday wrap
plain new brown boxes
or used UPS ones
then again who isn’t utterly
curious about any package arriving
with their name on the doorstep
and with no return address
if it’s something they’ve won
a contest they’d forgotten they’d entered
maybe some gift from a mysterious stranger
or more shadowy - a special delivery of karma
yes don’t we all think they should deliver
more rebounded goodnesses credit for
fine deeds and kindnesses
and with that hope they took
a knife to the length of
someone’s generosity and
noticed it was surprisingly heavy
then came that strange yet
indelible sense of truth that dawned
as they pulled back the flaps
this is a big mistake
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