The phone rings We’re sitting in the living room Two are reading One is knitting Three are writing The phone rings Everyone looks up There is a phone in this room It rings again Everyone looks at the wall They look confused Milliseconds of scrunched eyes There it’s perched In age and wear Hangs a phone You suddenly remember the faint memory of it Being there It’s always been there In the corner on that wall Always The phone rings You think you’re silly for not knowing Someone smirks it off Ignoring the fact that everyone Including Him Had that moment of confusion But the phone had always been there He got up and went to answer But a slice in the thick membrane that is reality Slips open And everyone forgets their memory That one simple everyday memory Of seeing the phone perched on the wall The phone was always there Wall aged around it, cobwebs intact But you look at ...
Inside the brain of a so-called "pretty geek". Poems, short stories, and quirks