It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Sunday, October 21, 2018

A Poem By G. Murray Thomas

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Someone is dialing wrong numbers
on my windshield.
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
is printed on my license plate.
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
on my windshield.
 
The message on my answering machine
is asking for spare change.
“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
about the earthquake last night.
“Did you feel it too?”
 
But it was just helicopters, low over the house,
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.
 
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
on my windshield.
And faxing me bills
for toys I never bought.
I don’t even own a TV, 
what would I want with
the Time-Life video cassette library
of history’s greatest massacres,
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.
 
There’s even a price tag on it.
I can tell it’s the real thing,
because the price is so damn high.
Someone is dialing wrong numbers
on my windshield.
The ringing in my ears
is an alarm clock ticking.

***

G. MURRAY THOMAS
(2010) 

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