Expletives Not Deleted

Cherry

By luigi_pagano

Tue, 18 Feb 2025
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8 comments
 

It is eight o'clock
and I am in bed
still half asleep
when my mobile
emits a bleep.

I mumble, fumble,
pick up the device
I think it is Fred
calling from Cyprus
with the usual advice:

“Time to get up, 
you lazy bone.”
I wake from slumber
answer the phone;
it's the wrong number.

It's not my relative
so I curse the caller
with a rude expletive
and I am not averse
to write it in verse.

I'm now fully awake,
feeling quite merry.
I shall exclaim WTF,
and hope  a cherry
will bring me luck.

 

© Luigi Pagano 2025

 

Certificate 15
Poem
Mutevoli pensieri
Humour

Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

made me laugh - thank you Luigi. Perfect rhyming for the last verse!

ps: put your phone on silent when you go to bed

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Thank you for reading, Claudine, and for the 'lucky' cherries. I shall exercise more discipline with my phone from now on.

Luigi x

 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

I love how your friend from Cyprus rings you up :0) Hope you had a nice cherry breakfast, Luigi

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

 He is my brother-in-law but he rings me to ask how I am keeping, not to give me an alarm call. smiley

Luigi x

 

Submitted by Penny4athought on

Expletive deserved; wrong number should never wake sleeping being. I concur demurely: WTF.

(where's their focus?)

Fun read Luigi - thank you for posting. smiley

Penny4athought

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Thank you for reading, JoAnne. Let's not be too demure and boldly go where no man (or woman) has gone before. laugh

Best wishes. x

 

Submitted by Tom Brown on

Imagine staying awake in bed the whole night to wait for your girl friend to phone to wake you up in the morning for work.

I think you like her. Goodnight to you also Luigi! Tom

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

smiley