Cold Shoulder

Don’t you just hate
the cheery messages:
“Can’t talk right now, systems down”.

Note to email server-

I don’t want to ‘talk’, right now,
I don’t want a new friend,
I’ll make do with the ones I’ve got.

I don’t even want to check work emails,
I’m not hoping for a note from a distant friend
to perk up my otherwise drab and dreary day.

All I want, is that message from the gas company,
that’s all.
I need the ‘secret answer’ to my ‘secret question’.

The woman on the phone
won’t give me a clue, see.
They’re threatening to cut us off.