The phone rang faint
In another room.
And unaware, if the ring was the first…
Or the fourth…I ran,
Before it triggered
The answering machine.
But it wasn’t my phone,
But a phone in a scene
On a TV show.
Then the door bell rang,
And half way there I realized,
The ring wasn’t mine…
But came again from a TV show.
Later the telephone rang anew,
Which wiser now,
I knew to ignore,
Except the show was now
About dinosaurs.