Loving you
was like getting through to

... an automatic menu.

For Love & Affection – please press 1.

For Tenderness & Care – please press 2.

For the feeling that there is someone there – please press 3.

For to engage with a real human being – please press 4 then the hash key followed by star star.

Half the time the numbers didn’t work!

Or left me holding....listening to a bad ersatz version of Britney
....one more time.

Every so often a mechanical voice
(was that really you?)

told me my call was very important to you
& to continue to...hold.

Or worse…that I was in a queue!

Yeah loving you... was like listening to the pips

(put on hold yet again)

listening to the wallpaper music
& counting how many roses were on a wall

until finally
...a voice

came on and cajoled:

“... please replace the handset and try again.! ”



*******


... KEY BE?


Loving you was like...
looking at a locked locker

...& wondering where
can that key be?

Dónall Dempsey

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/loving-you-was-like/