"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