#payphone
A payphone,
Paid for with time and energy
All my change I spend on you
Released from the caller's heart
An already safed contact,
Feeling like an anonymous number,
Ignored like spammers
"Call me back" left on voicemail
Hanging loose from the box
Still waiting-
more days to come
Feb 16, 2025
Feb 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM UTC
Who still remembers how he looks like?
No, it's his cousin who's always in red,
asking everyone to keep calm, and...
He still keeps silent in spite of the fact
that he's fading away in our mind.
(A dangling strand of curly hair
a buttoned up, and earrings which never come at a pair.)
Either traffic or time washes him away,
as no one has ever noticed now his shadow under the sunset
is even longer than the toss-and-turn we once had at nights.
He’s the only one who will be quiet when listening to others
but we just snub/phubs him, and keep passing by.
Jul 31, 2018
Jul 31, 2018 at 11:32 AM UTC
i am becoming strange
who is stranger
me or the girl i dont know
sitting next to me
on the bus
my hands shake
as i try to remember
your telephone number
at the corner payphone
i keep on glitching
itching and twitching
and i miss-dial your number
and my quarter is wasted
i slept with a stranger
girl than i remember
but not how you think
it was that she fell down
in the middle of the party
and the glitching and twitching
reminded me of you
so i carried her
and put her
in my spare bedroom
and that was it
when she left
i went back to the payphone
to tell you about it
my my hands were still shaking
and i miss-dialed your number
but it went to your mother
who explained to me again
why you can't pick up
she said you slept
in a nice box downtown
after you got too drunk
and your bike hit a truck
i said that i remember
how you glitched and twitched
how you were hospitalized
for a week or two
and then when you got out
you forgot to call me
she told me that you cant call
anymore
because you sleep
in a nice box downtown
with your grandma and uncle
after she hung up
i went to talk to you
in this nice box downtown
but before i got there
i got too drunk
and my bike hit a truck
and now i can see you
in your nice box downtown
but you still
dont return
my calls
Dec 10, 2015
Dec 10, 2015 at 7:19 PM UTC