Late Night missed phone calls–critique please

by violet9ish

Posted to Action Poetry on 2001-09-09 21:28:00

and in the abandoned night
I find myself sitting
in the middle.
The phone will ring
or it won’t
I could answer it
but I don’t bother
most of the time
there’s some other way to handle things
some other way to live
aside from sitting and wondering
if the phone will ring
or it won’t
I should answer it
but I don’t
I want to hear
the lost-word wander
messages left on the phone
see the little red light blink
as if singing
“you were missed, you were needed”
but it doesn’t
no ring
no call
no answering
needed
in fact
at all.
–violet9ish