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Someone is dialing wrong numbers
on my windshield.
The broken glass is an illegible scrawl
The broken glass is an illegible scrawl
across my driver’s seat.
I can only make out
a few angry obscenities.
I never use language like that.
I wonder whose phone number
I never use language like that.
I wonder whose phone number
is printed on my license plate.
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
on my windshield.
The message on my answering machine
is asking for spare change.
“Just twenty cents, please,
“Just twenty cents, please,
so I can make another call.”
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
on my windshield.
When I answer the phone, a voice asks
When I answer the phone, a voice asks
about the earthquake last night.
“Did you feel it too?”
“Did you feel it too?”
But it was just helicopters, low over the house,
their searchlights checking my driveway
for drug dealers, prostitutes
their searchlights checking my driveway
for drug dealers, prostitutes
and kids with skateboards.
Or else one of those monster jobs
out of Pendleton, hauling Marines off
to exercises somewhere,
I hope it’s just practice this time.
I hope it’s just practice this time.
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
on my windshield.
And faxing me bills
And faxing me bills
for toys I never bought.
I don’t even own a TV,
I don’t even own a TV,
what would I want with
the Time-Life video cassette library
the Time-Life video cassette library
of history’s greatest massacres,
complete with annual updates.
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
complete with annual updates.
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
on my windshield,
and spray painting graffiti on my tailgate
and telling me it’s art.
and spray painting graffiti on my tailgate
and telling me it’s art.
There’s even a price tag on it.
I can tell it’s the real thing,
I can tell it’s the real thing,
because the price is so damn high.
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
on my windshield.
The ringing in my ears
is an alarm clock ticking.
The ringing in my ears
is an alarm clock ticking.
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