By ditto
Date: 7 April 2000
The Phone Call
The Phone Call
'Hi.' Pause. Silence.
This is going to be like all the rest.
Jump start after jump start.
The engine rattles
the clutch goes
the brakes don't respond
and we crash into one another
An accident, it seems.
And we get out, bruised and sore
only this time
making our ways
to separate hospitals
Back to the Heart-on-Sleeve Corner