YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT

YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT

I offer you this proposition,
That if you call me, I will listen.
Tin can and string, waxed, stretched out taut,
or by copper wire; what God hath wrought!
Cell phone radiation through the air
To startle me napping in my chair.
You’ll hear no scratchy Muzak™ playing,
No cheery A.I. female saying,
“Your call’s important, stay on the line.”
I’ll pick up, promise, in four rings time.*
I’ll hang upon to your every word
Profound, flippant, mundane, absurd,
Your goings on, your hopes, your fears,
I’ll hear you with uncritical ears.

* Contingent on my being able to find my phone.