16. A terrorist didn’t pay
enough postage on a letter
bomb. It was returned,
marked “return to sender”.
Forgetting it was the bomb,
he opened it and was blown
to bits.
20. They sat for a full minute chewing
gum slowly and watching each
other, then Jimmy released the
emergency brake and they rolled
slowly along the drying sand road
and down past the huge cleansing
dawn coming, and the pine forests
growing tall in the rising mists, and
the quickly quiet waters of eternal
spring.