Answer
I phoned you, but you didn’t answer.
You didn’t even bother to answer the phone.
I phoned you every hour on the hour,
yesterday.
You didn’t pick up
You just let it ring, ring, ring.
I must have awakened your neighbors
I must have made your sink overflow
I must have made the faucet,
go
drip,
drip,
drip.
The phone went
ring,
ring,
ring
I went to bed
I overslept
Put the pillow over my head
And got a bit wet
She’s getting married today
But you wouldn’t know
You don’t even care
You don’t give a shit
A rat’s ass
A New York City tail!
I phoned you yesterday
Over and over again
But you didn’t pick up
And you did not answer
You didn’t leave house
And you did not palm your thoughts
I phoned you all day
you went to shop
I went to stone
you went to flower
And I got nothing for the hol-iday
You came knocking at my door
tap,
tap,
tap
Nothing there
Nobody home
Went fishing
Gone fishing
Out to lunch
Be back in five
You came knocking at my door
Thought I was not alone
But you only found a silly throne
A stupid piece of leftover
A fish of surprise
No one else, just a jar of fat
A jar of fat
I won’t go back today
I didn’t come here to go back
Don’t take me back to the countryside
I won’t go back to the westside
The phone rang
High pitched scream
You don’t know what I mean?
But you just swallow and pretend
I phoned you
All day yesterday
You didn’t have the guts
You didn’t even have the balls
You just let it go -
ring,
ring,
ring
Nobody home ....
© 2001 David Greg Harth
01.11.21.02:47:19@296NYC