How can a billion Chinese people be wrong?

So, I got my flu shot today (since I'll more than likely be undergoing surgery for my collarbone once more) and I'm finding that it really HURTS. A lot. I didn't feel a thing when I was poked, but since then the pain has been growing more and more vivid, so now it feels like a freaking ogre cracked me in the shoulder.
In today's Synchronicity Folder: they played "In Your Eyes" on the radio whilst Jon and I were donating plasma, thus making for a whole string of Lloyd Dobler coincidences.
In even weirder news, a poem that I wrote in 5 minutes in order to see the results of an online quiz to test my poetry knowledge is going to be published. Published! That's insane! They don't seem to understand that it required no investment of my time! A page of a book that poetry.com is publishing will be devoted to my poem! Why?!?!?! In case you're wondering, this is how it goes:

"The Postman Only Blinks Twice"

The postman only blinks twice at me
Before he delivers my mail,
I always wave at him emphatically
But always to no avail
I'm sure he's seen me all those days
He looks me in the eye,
But something's missing in his gaze
There's something gone awry
I can't imagine what wretchedness
He must feel within his bones
Or perhaps it is some prejudice
That afflicts him as he roams
I only know he feels no joy
When he approaches my abode
And sees the waving, mismatched boy
With clown shoes and no clothes

How is that worthy of publication?! I am perplexed and dumbfounded that a committee has deemed this drivel to be sufferable, much less good enough to publish!!! What is going on here?! And wait... I'm invited to attend the International Society of Poets' Winter Convention and Symposium in Orlando in February? What am I supposed to do there?! Just twiddle my thumbs and drink lemonade, I guess...
Sigh. Oh well, this isn't so heavy, I suppose. It's just mind-boggling, and I can't believe that such a typhoon of pure dumb luck came my way. It's been swell; I'll talk to you all later.

Love, Ian