Lonely Phone Poem by Ashok Sethi

My phone is so lonely

I am fine clearly

But my phone

Feels quite alone.

It hasn't rung in a while

It feels lonesome meanwhile.

I like the silence

But my phone resents the absence

Of sound

In the foreground.

It hangs there on the wall

Sending me dirty looks like catcalls

Saying to me why don't you yak

With someone that will call you back?

What's a phone that doesn't sing

With a nice melodious ring?