I Received A Call

I Received A Call

© by Bud Lemire on Dec 18, 2019

I got a call from Detroit, why such a place

Places can not talk, they don't have a face

Some time ago, New Jersey called me too

Cleveland called me also, which is nothing new

When I received a call from Escanaba, I thought, “I'm already here”

These places that keep calling, I find it might queer

California called me, but I had nothing to say

They never leave a message, I guess it's just their way

What can you say, of a phone call from some place

They can not talk, because they have no face

A place is a “Where,” I want to talk to a “Who”

Yet still these places call, and I'm not sure what to do

Places I never heard of, keep on calling me

I wouldn't know what to say, to a place I couldn't see

Never been there, don't know anything at all

Stay where you are, no reason for you to call

If I got a call from Jupiter, now that's a far out place

Mars or even Venus, or elsewhere in outer space

I prefer a person, to be on the other end

Not New York or Florida, they are not a friend

It always shows up on my phone as a place. But when a

person's name shows up, then it is much better. I know

they are just scams, and cowards, for they don't like

leaving me any messages. Friends will take time to leave

me messages on my Answering machine.