Dial Tone + Chords

v5 revision

The future will never outdo the dial tone

in our quiet home of forever online life
to the depths fell the dial tone
”what is that beep when they pick up the phone
in the middle of every horror movie?”
unsuitable to give such a monumental note
a send off pianissimo

so we’ve gathered here today
friends, family, and neighbors
a flat yellowed chord trails behind
punched through the front screen
and to the mouth of a megaphone
kisses the receiver
bathing the swatch of lawn in elegy
until we let go a final time
of the note

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give someone a ring

ringtones alone

stained yellow phone wire

evenly spun plastic wire

unstraightinably wound plastic

a tone absent of event