the ring (xr1)

tuesday night
four dollar
pizza night
at the shop
with a special
on baby sized
pizza pies -
the phone
rings, then
two, then
more and
the door
opens and
it's not
even four
yet and
i answer
two phones
at once,
definitely
mgmt. material

tuesday night
and a phone
rings i don't
remember all
dates and times,
being dense and
all, but that
call, i rem-
ember the
game by
now.

how
could i
forget?

bad father
w/out being
given the
chance for
being a
father the
phone rings
again - come
home? cars,
homes, dogs,
zeppelins in
the trunk
bumping out.

the phone
rings and
i wonder
what news
it will
bring what
new person
it will
bring into
my life and
whether or not
they'll await calls
with as much anticipation
as i...

proposing like a
thief in the night
the night not going
as i had planned it,
even tho i was a shady
knight with other skills
and saved the day - that
night riding in the car -
other remembered moments
ringing around my head.

call me?