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Poor Answering Machine
by larry r linville → (All Poetry by larry r linville)
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I don't have many messages on my answering machine any more and I started wondering how useless it is beginning to feel.



 

 
My phone doesn’t ring much when we’re not there.
The answering machine is in deep despair.
It has always thought I was its hero
now it’s ashamed its light is on zero.
 
Once many messages were recorded.
When I hit “play” it felt rewarded.
We answer the calls when we are in
as it sits on there feeling so chagrin.
 
Sitting alone, its mind seems to dwell
on my new possession that’s called a cell.
Most calls are on this phone without wire
and the machine thinks it soon will retire.
 
I feel kind of sorry for this old friend
whose life it seems has come to an end.
I just don’t feel like pulling the plug
and I don’t know how to give it a hug.

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 Reviews of "Poor Answering Machine"
Reviewed by Richard King
Reviewed on March 14, 2010
Ah, progress,, don’t ya love it. Bet it would look real appropriate on that "OLD MENTAL DESK." Unfortunately, we're all on the same path. Well done, Dick

Reviewed by Georg Mateos
Reviewed on March 8, 2010
Just sent my 10 years plus wireless phone/ fax machine/everythingelse to Plastic's Paradise and bought a new (no fax, no one send those anymore) but with a 3Gb answer machine somewhere inside, 100 numbers directory, on screen the number of the caller, music, bread-band,Internet, News, but can't make Coffee Capuccino!

Georg




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