Call Waiting

Call every
number Google Box.
(Short circuit?)
Why this task?
Collaboration power—
tie up the phone lines.

Search numbers
within you Google.
Call call call
(all of them?)
reach out to Robert,
then buzz the Midnight Cruiser.
A strain on circuits.

As you search,
I stand and watch you;
sleekly smooth…
like magic.
The age of Star Trek finds us
jaw-dropped and nervous.


18 Lines
Shadorma*
Writer’s Cramp Winner
6-25-20

*Shadorma is a Spanish 6-line syllabic poem
of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllable lines respectively.