The Posting of Bills

This is what former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser had to say when asked how success had changed his life:

The image is this feeling like one of those telephone poles you see on the street on which a lot of notices have been stapled and then torn away, and they leave little triangles of paper, held by staples. On those notices were things lost and things found and the photos of people missing, and now even the photos are missing as a metaphor for what happens in life. All this experience is tacked upon us and then torn away, and we become a residue of all this experience.

I now declare that the subject of discussion for this Monday is telephone poles. As the above quote covers the sublime end of the spectrum for our topic, this provides the ridiculous.