Ring ring
goes the telephone sound
click click
lift the telephone earwards
"Hello, your computer does not internet"
"My internet computes fine, sir"
"But, you have virus"
"I'll have you know, I am covid-free"
"You need to send me your password."
"Sir, you need to listen to me...
Does your head bang internally like there's someone dying to get out?
Maybe that's just me...
Does your tail bone shimmy everytime you hear your favourite song?
Or just any song...
Does your heartbeat faster in the rain or slow to a gradual palpipalpitation?
Maybe that's how it's supposed to be...
Does your fire burn brightly like the sun and hotter than Death Valley
It's because you're alive...
Does every little thing you do matter in the grand scheme of things?
Yes..."
"Please sir send me your password and I can be fixing your computer"
click click
the hang-up sound
*
Thanks for reading!
Author's Notes: Just for fun.
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Paul Stewart
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"Death cannot stop true love, only delay it." – Wesley in The Princess Bride. I decided to come back to Vocal on a very cold and dark night at the end of December. I had been, and still am, convalescing from a horrible staph infection that had gone misdiagnosed for months. This, paired with the increasing challenges of being healthy, making the best choices for my co-parented child, being a wife, and being a director at a new job, was a lot to manage.
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Comments (9)
Very cute poem for an all too frequent event 🥹
lol. Best response ever.
I want to see this play out!
Humorously expressed & loved it!!!❤️❤️💕
Remove the question mark, this is absolutely funny
You've given me some very good ways to not dread scammers so much 😅 I just might have fun playing around with some of these lines.. 🤣 Loved this, my friend!
Ah, the scam caller and you regale them with philosophical questions? HOw dare they ignore your polite enquiry!! Made me laugh and thoughtful simultaneously. Nice work, my chum-bo!
It amazes me sometimes how you manage to mine profundity even when your horsing around. This is the most original 'stop and smell the flowers' poem ever, Paul!
Fairly accurate!