One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingings, Three Ringy Dingings, Four-Oh Shazbutt! Poem by Joe Rosochacki

One Ringy Dingy, Two Ringy Dingings, Three Ringy Dingings, Four-Oh Shazbutt!



Ernestine Tomlin would’ve had a fit,
The would be terrorists are laughing a bit,
The Ma Bell, excuse me,
The independent phone company,
Cut off services to the FBI wire tapping,
The ghost of J. Edgar Hoover does not think this funny;
It’s a kind of a drag.
“Evidence once was lost when surveillance established
by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act order,
which typically targets suspected spies and terrorists,
was 'halted due to untimely payment.' “
So how do we spend billions of dollars in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Pakistan,
And forget about paying the phone bill?
We ought not to think of the ramifications,
Had President Kennedy been cut off from Moscow,
In the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis,
--Humor me if you will,
“Deposit $10,000 dollars, only in quarters, dimes, and nickels,
no pennies please, for the next three minutes.”
Enough about DynCorp and Black Water if we’d only understand,
That INTEL is not a company; it’s our major defense.
I wonder if Maxwell Smart ever had this problem with his shoe?
Did 007 ever get cut off from British Telecom?
Did Napoleon Solo get cut off from his U.N.C.L.E. including Channel D?
Where did the Bell Company go when they outed “Deep Throat”?
Wiretaps for Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lennon, so I’m told.
Wiretaps for Gotti and other crime bosses but not for the terrorists?
What if Jack Bauer got cut off from CTU
Because he didn’t pay his cell phone bill?
There would be no more 24.
I would answer this conundrum, but I’m on hold.

(1-10-2008)

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