The Telephone Charles Bukowski

Will bring you people
With its ring,
People who do not know what to do with
Their time
And they will ache to
Infect you with
This
From a distance
(although they would prefer
To actually be in the same room
To better project their nullity upon
You).

The telephone is needed for
Emergency purposes only

These people are not
Emergencies, they are
Calaminties.

I have never welcomed the ring of a
Telephone

"hello," I will anser
Guardedly