Blog PostsFriends | Phone BoothI saw a phone booth on a Portland sidewalkIt loomed there, an aluminum monstrosity A large, empty box, a metal husk No innards, nothing left not even wires No one saw it But I that is, I saw the sad hulking thing Impossibly large and impossibly invisible My heart sank at the sight of it It was a useless thing, that phone booth Standing in the middle of the street And I realized with abject horror and sadness That I am that phone booth and that phone booth is me |