Madam and the Phone Bill Langston Hughes

You say I O.K.ed
LONG DISTANCE?
O.K.ed it when?
My goodness, Central
That was then!

I'm mad and disgusted
With that Negro now
I don't pay no REVERSED
CHARGES nohow

You say, I will pay it--
Else you'll take out my phone?
You better let
My phone alone

I didn't ask him
To telephone me
Roscoe knows darn well
LONG DISTANCE
Ain't free

If I ever catch him
Lawd, have pity!
Calling me up
From Kansas City