Ernestine Tomlin would’ve had a fit, <br />The would be terrorists are laughing a bit, <br />The Ma Bell, excuse me, <br />The independent phone company, <br />Cut off services to the FBI wire tapping, <br />The ghost of J. Edgar Hoover does not think this funny; <br />It’s a kind of a drag. <br />“Evidence once was lost when surveillance established <br /> by a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act order, <br /> which typically targets suspected spies and terrorists, <br /> was 'halted due to untimely payment.' “ <br />So how do we spend billions of dollars in Iraq, <br />Afghanistan and Pakistan, <br />And forget about paying the phone bill? <br />We ought not to think of the ramifications, <br />Had President Kennedy been cut off from Moscow, <br />In the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, <br />--Humor me if you will, <br />“Deposit $10,000 dollars, only in quarters, dimes, and nickels, <br /> no pennies please, for the next three minutes.” <br />Enough about DynCorp and Black Water if we’d only understand, <br />That INTEL is not a company; it’s our major defense. <br />I wonder if Maxwell Smart ever had this problem with his shoe? <br />Did 007 ever get cut off from British Telecom? <br />Did Napoleon Solo get cut off from his U.N.C.L.E. including Channel D? <br />Where did the Bell Company go when they outed “Deep Throat”? <br />Wiretaps for Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lennon, so I’m told. <br />Wiretaps for Gotti and other crime bosses but not for the terrorists? <br />What if Jack Bauer got cut off from CTU <br />Because he didn’t pay his cell phone bill? <br />There would be no more 24. <br />I would answer this conundrum, but I’m on hold. <br /> <br />(1-10-2008)<br /><br />Joe Rosochacki<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-ringy-dingy-two-ringy-dingings-three-ringy-dingings-four-oh-shazbutt/
