new sketch (by sheri)
the man at the phone company
walked through so many yellow pages of
days
just to see who'd be there to sell
their soul
and he called up the banker and the
lawyer and the florist
but all they gave him was a rain check
he thought, Well, maybe I can get my
feet wet now
Lucy was a woman he could plant kisses
with
and get baked and drive the moon over
steep rooves
he told her he had her number everyone
did
she was highlighted in everyone's line
of work
I'll make you a deal, she told him,
if you can bring me work, I'll take a
page out of your book
so he did what he could delivering year
after year
but she told him one day, the dessert
is too rich
and the coffee is too strong, and they
say
the smokes and the beer are imported
so he stripped more than his clothes
but
the vanish from the wood, but she said,
it's too rough and buckled and won't
burn
anything but a hole in my pocket
so he told her, I'll tell ya what,
I'll make these into walking sticks
and I'll get ya a job at the phone
company
she called it a deal, he called it a
bargain,
and that's when they said it was
business time
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