Phone Hang Up Ploy
By: Miracle Man
11/28/2021
Ding dong, ding dong, the song my doorbell sang,
caller didn't know 'twas just I who rang.
Angrily hanging up a smartphone lacks gravitas - jabbing a virtual button doesn’t offer the satisfying, physical release of slamming down a receiver
Amazing, how easily we can be bewitched
By someone who deliberately flips our switch.
Better to ignore all attempts to belittle us
Just hang up the phone and have a good cuss!
written July 7, 2021
We are happy to let you know that you have qualified for a $500,000 new house free of charge,
Said a computerized voice when I answered my phone.
No thank you, I say, and I click the receiver.
Brrrrinnnnnnggggg.
Did you just hang up on me? A monotone computer voice asks me.
Amazing!
I hang up the phone.
Brrrrinnnnnnggggg.
The robotic voice says sternly, “I have reported you to the Technological Society. Police will be arriving.”
What?
I laugh and hang up.
The officers are at my door in seconds.
“Are you prejudiced against computers?” Officer Sternly asks me.
No.
“Did you hang up on one?”
Yes.
“Why?”
The computer swore at me, I tell him.
A total lie, but I doubt this is going any farther.
So now the computers have more rights than I do in my own home?
Just when I thought things could not get any more ridiculous!
To add insult to injury, my sister-in-law got the free $500,000 house.
Intoned and on automatic –
almost entirely dialed…
then ordered into sudden
silence.
Inaudible sigh.
Quietly, I rest – for now.
I’ll use the downtime to build up my strength.
Stubborn, how I resent
being put down and willfully ignored.
(Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
Immobile: yet how moving?
A little manipulator
evoking the first law of thermodynamics
(it’s true, even in love)
in my application, to get to work:
“Your emotions aren’t going to evaporate,
you know. Just make the call.”
I love bearing witness to the fight in her.
She loses it just a little every single day.
Sometimes, she throws me.
Maybe I’m astonished, but I don’t break easily.
And, I think, I will, eventually, win.
Perhaps it's time to hang up my mouse
Spend more time cuddling with my spouse
Have neglected my sweetie
Made her all sad and weepy
Must rectify this before our marriage heads south
If your feeling all
alone
Just pick up the
telephone
Call me any night or
day
I wont hang up or go
away
Love from my heart
will shine right
through
Over the lines
straight into you
And wont lose grip
until you feel
The sadness start to
grip and peel
Off your soul and
not return
With all the bad
that builds and
burns
Way down deep when
you can't take
Life anymore and you
just break
Forgetting there is
someone here
Who's friendship
will never dare
Leave your life for
any reason
It is warm and never
freezing
You out this I
promise truly
There is so much
love I fully
Guarantee your not
forgotten
My hearts door is
never shuttin'
It's open whenever
you
Need a space to
crawl into
Love sick is a horrid hang-up,
to know that no one with call you,
or no one cares for you not one living thing;
Not even a snail moving slowly in a gutter,
or a snake slithering in desert sand pools,
not even that one beautiful girl with diamond eyes;
not one will ever come and just talk.
I hear the birds talking back and forth to each other,
five in the morning in the cool dawn morning;
I think they talk of me- (who is that brown-eyed boy,
-who cries such tears of sorrow-)
I don't think that though- they must be talking of the morning sunrise.
They might not even know that I'm down here thinking of them up there-
-or do they?)
.2.23.2014.
yes im calling because im in crisis
you know theres so much i could do for this world...
please dont hang up....
theres so much i could do for this world if they would only
understand my disabilities
if they would only provide decent housing for the disabled...
please dont hang up
if they would only understand these things...
we are the richest country in the world...
but the government is broke, you say?
gotta build more bombs still?
whats that? you have another call?
please dont hang up
theres so much i could do this world
i could create art, act, and inspire people beyond your wildest dreams
but the governments broke, you say?
gotta keep giving those tyrants money, you know
gotta keep giving the one percent those tax breaks
they are job creators you know
even though i cant find a job
and have a resume that would knock your socks off
whats that? you have to go? budgets are tight and they laid off more crisis
workers?
oh, please dont hang up...
When I would talk to you on the phone I would always tell you I Love You.......
befor we would hang the phone up we would never say good bye ........
Why oh why did I hang the phone up that day??????
I feel as if I would have never hung up that day you would still be here.......
O but no god wanted you there with him to add one more angle to his army of
many......Grandma why did I hang up that one faithful day that day before you died
and went to heaven to be with the lord???? I wanted to still call and hear your
sweet sweet voice and never let it leave my head for you grandma I will never say
good bye for good bye is forever and I know one day I know you will be there to
welcome me home and I will forever be there with you again. I love and Miss you
Grandma may you R.I.P 4/16/2011
RING RING
RING RING
cries the silver phone...
better pick him up, or his cries will be unknown.
RING RING
RING RING
it yells inside your head...
how annoying is the rhythm; like a needle with no thread.
RING RING
RING RING
why not just pick it up?
cause life has been on speed dial, but your life wants to hang up...