Who's Calling, Please?

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    This was for an assignment about looking at old things in new ways.

    Who's Calling, Please?

     no one can leave a call unanswered
    shrewish ring, shrill and persistent
    it pulls us in like gravity, inexplicable and certain
    the shiny black handset smeared with greasy fingerprints
    strong steel cord segmented like a worm
    plexiglass shields on either side
    wearing graffiti like a cloak
    RC + TL = 4EVA
    and other unknowable hieroglyphics
    the coin slot's narrow abyss
    the metal shelf below, scarred from battle with the public
    no one can leave a call unanswered 

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    HarverTomsson commented on Who's Calling, Please?

    01-11-2011

    In all the years there were pay phones, I can't remember using them more than a couple of dozen times, if that. But it was always funny to see Alan Funt on Candid Camera get apay phone ringing and see what he could entice the unssuspecting to do. Harv
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    ginga commented on Who's Calling, Please?

    12-30-2010

    ahhh simone the pay phone is now becoming obsolete. This brings back many years that as a youngster we used those phones. ty ginga
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