Read, Respond, Recycle

Reads the bin by the post-office door.
Sometimes you’ll see someone stand sorting
Through junk, flyers and bills, tossing most,

Saving what they have to, but never
Someone writing a response right there
Before tossing items in the bin.

The order of commands seems foolish,
Unless those aren’t commands but options
Offered for those confused by their mail.

They may have wider application,
Although the range remains vague. They could
Apply to all communications,

To all messages, to all words, or,
Like poem titles, only to themselves.