Poem: At the Lindale, Texas Post Office I Ask for a Book of Stamps

Do you want flags, cowboys, or cowboy hats? A poem by Robin Turner, and a message from outgoing TXO poetry editor Naomi Shihab Nye.

He hands me the standard issue American flag variety with its red,its white, its ever-deepening blue. But I am tired, America, tiredof your shouting flags, this flag, all our flags, every—God help us—flag flying, flag lowered, flag bullet-holed and half-masted. I ask if he has anything else, wishing flowers, trees, some soft washof watercolor, a woman’s vivid face. “Cowboys,” he answers.“And cowboy hats.” Slaps them down take-it-or-leave-iton the counter between us. I leave them.

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