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

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