Best Wrong Number Poems

E.T.
Kind-hearted alien
asked his friend: “Can I phone home?”
Elliott nervously replied: “Will it be a collect call?”...

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She called my number by mistake,
Still her voice I just couldn't shake,
Every word I could still hear,
Just as if she was whispering in my ear,
Not...

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At one-thirty in the morning, while I was lying in bed reading my book. 
My mind wondered with thoughts of my husband. I couldn't stay...

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I just got a message on my machine
“This is Jesus if you know what I mean?”
“I’ve been meaning to talk to you.  You see...

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That’s how she saw me

A lying jerk
Filled with mal-intent
And inebriated twist of the devil’s tongue

She removed my smile
My patience
My need for her

She was a professor
with...

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Winter nights, the darkness comes quick
Key in door, to an empty house
Jacket falls fast right on the floor
I stare at the stand, at the telephone...

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Winter nights, the darkness comes quick
Key in door, to an empty house
Jacket falls fast right on the floor
I stare at the stand, at the telephone...

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Alexander Graham Bell
Phoned the farmer in the dell.
The farmer, wakened from his slumber
Yelled at him and growled, "Wrong number".

won 6th place...

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One,  you waved at me at the stop light
Two, we bumped carts at Target last night
Three, you were behind me at the line to...

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ring
just one
then silence
Wheels start turning
Just a wrong number?
Just a quick second thought?
Or    was the caller cut off?
A nylon cord around his throat?
A...

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I hope the whole world excuses me while I'm being young and reckless
Going to bed with beautiful girls and not staying for breakfast
Giving them the...

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From Queens to Manhattan, I rode the subway.
I will never forget that late spring day,
when I walked into that Greenwich Village café.
This young girl practically...

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...Actually polish with a furniture polish...
Not use it as an air freshener.
...Notice the surrounding wildlife...
Pick any room of your house.
...Finally do laundry...
And separate the colors.
...Strike...

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In an attempt to increase sales, a gas station in rural Mississippi
posted this sign for all of its potential customers to read.
Free Sex With Fill...

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I didn't want him to leave, I begged him to stay,
It had been snowing all night, it was a winter storm;
    ...

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