I missed something around noon

Around noontime.
There was a doorbell and I didn’t see it—
didn’t hear it.
I think it has to be the doorbell.
A package maybe?

They left a slip.

I sit all day,
I wait,

and swearing up and down that I don’t, won’t ever miss the mail.
And today.

10/23/2020

PoetryRiley Welch