Loan Shark
Called you at midnight
you answered with no little reluctance
through the rusted ribcage of totalled phonebox,
saw the rusted renown of my smashed reason.
After one minute the receiver fades to fuzz,
my fists hammer walls that are not there,
I zip, buckle, put collar up, out
in space now walking and with each step,
the ground sinks a little further...
sinks a little...
sinks...
raypool
Thu 12th Jan 2017 19:38
Very bleak and to the point David. A story told in a flash; dare I say again I can sense the old STD phone box from the 80s and the rack of phone books. The claustrophobia of a phone box is a perfect setting. Something we have lost in mobile phones. "Rusted ribcage of totalled phonebox" makes it for me.
Ray