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07.19.2021

The Expedient Yak

Most have heard the story

Of the famed Pony Express

And how it delivered mail

All the way across the West

But much less celebrated

And so much lesser-known

Is the wonderful Expedient Yak

Which covered a more northern zone

It was a one-man-one-yak outfit

A simple, grass-roots team

They bore all kinds of mail

Over every mountain and each stream

A unique postal service

It never quite caught on

Email and Twitter developed

And the Expedient Yak was gone

Some say they saw them serving

Soft-serve at a spot in Maine

Other rumors have them crooning

Ballads on an eastbound train

So if you’ve never heard this telling

Of the Golden Age of mail

Please stayed tuned to PBS

In hopes they’ll tell the tale