Missing In The Atmosphere

A mobile phone is scarcely
grounds for this dissent
but sounding out inanities
which let themselves begin
debate and start this spate
of cruel contempt
has pride of place.

First, a phone which isn’t
on is not a phone that can
be called, rather like no
phone at all – excepting
where your answer phone
completes the lot
when you cannot.

Why have a phone that
isn’t on? I declare an
innocence of thought and
deed, perhaps it’s for that
special call you like to make
but not receive.

And furthermore,
a phone you cannot find
or reach to take a call
suggests it’s all too hard
to teach the change
you need make to own
a mobile phone – the shift
in thought from ‘I might be’
to ‘I am receiving you
loud and clear’
is missing in the
atmosphere –
© 21 April 2007, I.D. Carswell