My Phone

 

Top-drawer, loaded — you should have seen my phone:

not some East 14th Street knockoff that fell

off the back of a truck, no, I was jonesing

 

for the real deal, the one that can tell

you what’s what and who’s who and where to hang

your hat and which way’s heaven, which way’s hell —

 

the features, man, the features — angels sang

my song, I’d never have to be alone,

I’d have it made. And then the damn thing rang.

 

 

© Michael Fleming

Brattleboro, Vermont

April 2013

 

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