This Poem was Submitted By: Nicholas William Roberts On Date: 2001-06-23 13:32:07 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Please hang up your life and try again

Vacant phone booth, cut cord, voices dangling. The price went up from a quarter to thirty-five cents. Emptying pockets to hear from a loved one,black market relationships. Put a price tag on everything.  There has to be an element of loss to it all.  That's why some of us keep pictures in our wallets to remind us that some things are still free, everything else we resell to public. Supply and demand; I think it's more demand than anything.  Always wanting too much; cheaper gas, cheaper cigarettes, bigger bags of flaming hot  cheetos, someone to truly listen when you're talking.  To say I love you not out of oblagation, but actually meaning it. Wishing this fucking phone would ring and it doesn't, but you have to have hope, faith in things impossible.  It provides a continuity in life where  science has spent forever lacking along with these nomads of religion playing musical chairs with gods and explanations.  Trying to fill holes that are supposed to be there; LET THEM REMAIN. Damn I wish someone would call and backhand me out of this mood.  Maybe I should go home and check the mailbox, but it's just as unlikely as trying to find good chinese food in a white suburban neighborhood.  Shit just ain't gonna happen.  Maybe I should just get a 12 of Dos Equis and call it a night, but I think there's meaning in me starting at an inoperable phone booth,  waiting with a crack head's anticipation for someone to drop some change. Waiting for someone to come and try to use the phone, see that it doesn't work and realize ther was no one to call anyway.  Please hang up your life and try again.

Copyright © June 2001 Nicholas William Roberts

Additional Notes:
This poem was came to me at a gas station. It was a friday night and I was in one of those half drunk, half sober states and needed some kinda console.


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