Long Switchboards Poems
Long Switchboards Poems. Below are the most popular long Switchboards by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Switchboards poems by poem length and keyword.
Automated DespairI’m bad tempered and upset,
Feeling tired isolated alone
Sitting hopefully waiting for
Someone to answer the phone .
I just want to hear
A normal human voice
But these days my dears
You don’t get a choice.
Androgynous, emotionless
It’s...
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Categories:
switchboards, anger,
Form:
Rhyme
The Dying WaspShe vibrates, a chassis minus shock absorption.
A painting, the nude descends a staircase,
rings of Saturn etched in a vacuum tube.
Or Eniac of twisted cords and switchboards.
She isn't programmed to see light beams
spraying through the trees,
nor...
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Categories:
switchboards, insect, technology,
Form:
Imagism
My First Job
My place of work they used to call ”Ma Bell”
As switchboard operator, “number please”
Became my tool of their “advanced intel”
With wires and plugs held to connect parties.
Three days a week from three to...
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Categories:
switchboards, jobs,
Form:
Sonnet