Early Monday morning
I discovered, to my dis-tress,
that, sometime during the
previous evening,
somebody
— I didn’t know who —
had stolen my car.
ii.
I immediately called the police
& filed a report.
The police-man they sent to my
apartment told me that
they would do their best,
but not to hold out too much hope.
iii.
On the following Monday,
the same police-man called me,
and in a hopeful voice, said that
they had located my vehicle,
but, he warned, it had been
stripped of everything.
iv.
“Oh no! I cried, but, really,
I had expected the worse.
So, I thanked him and said,
“OK, I’ll come by and pick it up —- ”
But the policeman interupted me & said,
“Don’t worry about it,
we’ll just mail it to you.”
v.
One week later,
I rec’d an envelope in…
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