"Hit me babeee...one more time!"
the ringtone rang out
brashly

after the silence
settled
the noise seemed but a dream

the mobile rang again
inside his inside breast blazer pocket
lighting up his  car key and small change

"Hit me babeeeee....!" drowned
by the clamour and clang of
Sunday church bells

the bells scattered
starlings into a sky
the phone goes unanswered

the dead man
stared directly into the sun
his dog licking his face

someone left
a message it was
3 a.m. exactly