Green Phone

The green phone is waiting
it is patient
too old to ring
a generous communicator
with no eyes
only ears and mouth
and no chance to feel
But the green phone is purposeful
heavy where it needs to be
narrow in its tone
a grand tool to communicate
     in its day
today the green phone peers-out
too slow to talk
yet remembers how useful its life was
the green phone did one thing
     just fine enough
I may wish to be the green phone

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- mailed to California -
- artwork by Pablo Picasso -