Why did you speak in that stupid voice?

I heard you:
You were all grey
And buttoned
Ready for business
And those consonants
Clagged in your mouth
Like seeded fruits.
Who are you to speak
Of board meetings
And colloquia?
I have seen you complicit
With a dank pool
Of Strongbow, you drank
Us all dry with loose
Vowels slopping onto
The card-table. I like that man
Better. My mother has
A telephone voice.
When she uses it
I stop listening.