Expletives Not Deleted

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