Loving you <br />was like getting through to <br /> <br />... an automatic menu. <br /> <br />For Love & Affection – please press 1. <br /> <br />For Tenderness & Care – please press 2. <br /> <br />For the feeling that there is someone there – please press 3. <br /> <br />For to engage with a real human being – please press 4 then the hash key followed by star star. <br /> <br />Half the time the numbers didn’t work! <br /> <br />Or left me holding....listening to a bad ersatz version of Britney <br />....one more time. <br /> <br />Every so often a mechanical voice <br />(was that really you?) <br /> <br />told me my call was very important to you <br />& to continue to...hold. <br /> <br />Or worse…that I was in a queue! <br /> <br />Yeah loving you... was like listening to the pips <br /> <br />(put on hold yet again) <br /> <br />listening to the wallpaper music <br />& counting how many roses were on a wall <br /> <br />until finally <br />...a voice <br /> <br />came on and cajoled: <br /> <br />“... please replace the handset and try again.! ” <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />******* <br /> <br /> <br />... KEY BE? <br /> <br /> <br />Loving you was like... <br />looking at a locked locker <br /> <br />...& wondering where <br />can that key be?<br /><br />Dónall Dempsey<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/loving-you-was-like/
