Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

45. PETER COOPER STATION

PO Box 872 Cooper Station 10276 was the only address the guy would give me and so I wrote it down and quickly lost it for at least a year or it was that much time before I stumbled back upon it in any case nothing ever answered from that location no sound not a spot of anything so one day I walked over there to that post office and promptly attempted to cancel the box but of course the clerk - a narrow mischievous man with a small yellow beard - turned his face from me and mumbled "I’m afraid that box cannot be closed people have been trying to do that for years but the main problem is neither can it be opened" and with that I turned and left and just outside the doorway were two guys arguing over their bicycles for one had apparently hit the other as they both rolled in but the argument was going nowhere so I didn’t stay to listen and by leaving when I did I of course missed what the newspaper the next day called a ‘post office slaying’ as in ‘two men apparently arguing over a light pole onto which they sought to lock their bicycles became violent yesterday afternoon as one man pulled out a hunting knife and stabbed the other man at least fourteen times leaving him dead on the sidewalk’ and then curiously enough the paper said ‘both men were apprehended’ well yeah I guess so and I wondered too if the dead man’s bicycle was ever stolen?