The Phones (with apologies to Edgar Allen Poe)
Paul Buchheit 1947 (Illinois)
Phones, phones, phones,
See the people with their phones,
Silver, pink and paisley phones,
On the subways and the buses and the sidewalks, all alone,
Lost in intimate exchanges with their phones, phones, phones.
Hear the murmuring of phones,
In their muffled monotones,
Feel the muted tremulations, like the buzzing of the drones,
Hear the pinging and the dinging of the phones.
Passing time, time, time,
In a strange robotic rhyme,
With the tintinnabulation of the tones, tones, tones,
All the people look the same to me, like clones, clones, clones.
See the driver with the phone,
How it chills you to the bone,
See a world of seven billion navigating all alone,
Through the secret sibilations of the phone, phone, phone, phone, phone, phone, phone.
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Submitted by pbuchheit on May 30, 2021
Modified on May 03, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 743 |
Words | 126 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4 |
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