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Mom knew I was too young for newspapers
I’d have a route to deliver TV Guides.
I knocked for sign-ups and 
enrolled a dozen neighbors more or less
learning responsibility 
saving for college.
Thirty years before cable channel guides 
I’m the 10 year-old at your door
a television magazine
Flipper Andy Griffith Mary Tyler Moore on the cover.
Saturday began the week
I put it in the mailbox if no one answered knock or bell
in the morning you had it for television
did you keep it on the table
on top of the TV set or
squash it sitting down.