Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Unending text messages April 28, 2012

 

 

Her phone rings at all hours day or night,

 here in her flat or even at the office,

she snatches it up to see who it is,

 then tells me "It's nothing,"

 when it is something, someone,

another friend  or enemy, even her stalker,

who for all her talk she seems to be attached to,

 rereading his texts over and over,

the way a Christian might bits of the New Testament,

 especially the apocalyptic parts

where the text predicts the end of existence,

 each ring making me jump a little

 and wonder more about just how popular she is

and how her whole life revolves around who might text her next,

 with only one thing certain when I am with her,

 it's not me on the other end,

 though I wonder if she says to them

what she says to me late at night.

 


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