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| Telephone | |
| By Phil | ||||||||||||||||||
| 03 June 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||
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A piece for 'Lazy Writers.' I pretty sure this isn't poetry. I've put it here for best fit really. I may move it over to short stories if anyone thinks that's best. Telephone. See the desk: Large, teak and leather covered. Upon the desk a gun-metal grey phone rings. Listen to it call, Insistent. Ring ring. ‘Answer me.’ Ring ring. ‘Pick up.’ Ring ring. ‘Come on.’ See the picture frame, Face down against the leather. Imagine what it holds: A family snapshot: husband, wife, child, dog? Lovers at a midnight, candle-lit table? A child’s drawing of mother and father? Hear the phone, Strident now. Ring ring. ‘Answer me damn you.’ Ring ring. ‘Pick up the bloody phone.’ Ring ring. ‘Come on!’ See the pen Neatly laid across A folded sheet of cream paper. See the single word written Thoughtfully Across the middle, ‘Ellen.’ Hear the phone. Now pleading. Ring ring. ‘Please answer.’ Ring ring. ‘Please pick up.’ Ring ring. ‘Come on Allan. Allan?’ Look at the chair On its side behind the desk. See the suit panted legs Spread-eagled uncomfortably; One in the knee-well, One next to the chair. Let your eyes travel up the legs, Stomach, Chest, To the head. Look carefully at the bloodied, Bone shattered Exit hole. Look at the gore splashed Up the wall. Hear the phone. Now resigned. Ring ri.
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