I Found This the Other Day Somewhere Close By

  

To ______ (whomever),

                  To-day, as I sat in the kitchen drinking my morning citrus tea and thinking about nothing in particular, I felt that I must send a postcard.  So I did.  Which is what you must be holding in your hands as you read this (unless for what crazy reason this inconsequential little card gets locked in a glass frame, or trapped in the eternity of a photo, which then you wouldn't be holding, but imagine you are – it gives a rather more existential feeling, because I made it.)
                I walked down – for one of the first times of my life – the Street of Useless Tourism Necessities, and finding that those postcards were, indeed, too tacky, I made my own.  Which you are holding ... or reading, at least.
                On a whim, I thought a balloon would be nice; and on a whim, I shall mail my postcard without adequate postage (it’s much too overpriced these days, anyways).  So, I hope you enjoy this surprise of a somewhat deflating balloon landing somewhere annoyingly inconvenient, and upon the joy of finding a postcard, realize that it is only the whim of someone who does nothing but sip tea and watch sunbeams in the kitchen.  Yes, I do hope you also enjoy this scrawl of horrendously small writing, and the pointless ramblings of a person without much better to do (no Meaningful Words of Wisdom here, nope).  Yes, please enjoy it!  But perhaps I should worry if anyone will actually recieve and read it.  Well, no matter.
                I hope to hear back.  Oops, I didn’t write a return address, and I shan’t.  Delight that I shall not burden your dear soul to write back your annoyance and aggravation (I don’t want to read it anyways).  But maybe I’m fooling myself, and the whole town will soon be filled with flying balloons with letters attached.  That’s very environmentally harmful, by the way.  Don’t do it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Well, Tata!