Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Call

Call


I've got the telephone

cradled against my shoulder

and through the receiver,

soft and pushy like the cat's cheek

or Nat King Cole's voice

you keep saying

It's going to be all right.

I'm going to be all right.


I'm hanging onto the telephone,

a black voice speaking to me from

a black space where the inevitable

might not happen tonight.

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