Answering Machine

I like to turn off the ringer on my phone
I like to see that red number flashing
In the middle of my dirty stained machine
For capturing voices
Till I want to press the button
And put them in my head
By way of my ears

Reviews

[Babe Roxx]

What a great nostalgic write...I had one of these voice mail machines back in the 80's...it was one of my favorite technology at the time...thanks for taking me back. Excellent poem.

[Luke L]

thank you very much, it reminds me of my early years in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We also had a rotary phone...

[Babe Roxx]

You're very welcome, Luke...I had a direct line because my mom worked for ma bell...and some how some folks had gotten a hold...so I changed the outgoing message to Arnold Swartzeneggers voice I dubbed from the movie terminator...I think I dubbed the whole scene where the landlord was asking if he had a dead cat...and Arnold replies...F*ck you A$$hole...lol they never called again lol

No problem, awesome poem. :)

[Luke L]

ahahha that's beautiful :)

[Babe Roxx]

lol it was...it had that thumping heart beat sound before he said it too lmao aaaah too funny, thank you for taking me back for a minute. :)

[Inspiring Writer]

That's an interesting write that i've ever heard or seen... liked your realness of writing. great words, i'm gonna read your some more stuffs.

[Luke L]

thank you very much :)

[Luke L]

It's so beautiful how long you could tape a voice, and keep it forever... in the old days... :) when someone special nowdays calls me, it's gone in 3 days, stupid voicemails.... ;) I loved this little piece of you, it has a great nostalgic message in it ;-)

- Elisa

[Luke L]

actually it's something I talked about with friends of mine, recording their voicemails. Because sometimes they are pretty funny. I should do that, and incorporate that into some kind of art.

Ha! that's awesome, you should do that... some voicemails of me, are so funny, esp. when my crazy family jokes with me... they always do something to freak me out, lately my cousin did if she was from the police, and that I did not pay my traffic bills... (which I don't have ever), so I got pretty shocked... she put another voice to it, ha crazy people..... ;)

[Luke L]

ha my friend Aaron was really drunk and he had this whole email talking about how he needed to find this girl and give her his diiiiiiick and then how he was talking about how he met his cousin or something... Pokeay...

OMG!!! sassy! lol I had some like these anacdotes on my nephews wedding party yesterday too lol, people do weird things when they are totally drunk haha... I laughed my a*s off, I will tell you that one, another day lol ;-)

[Luke L]

okay haha sassy? lmmfao

That's what my Sister Robbie on here always says..... I'm a Dutchie, I absorb words, from good writers... lol

[Luke L]

haha alrighty :p. That's funny

Oh so many here laugh about my accent... well it's ok :D I laugh about it either... lol

[Luke L]

just message me if you want to continue talking this is silly these aren't reviews! :p

[Trevor Jay Bloodworth]

Neat. The fact that you can write about something as random as an answering machine is rather cool. Good stuff.

[Luke L]

thank you man

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Do people still have answering machines? ;)

Seriously, though...this was rather inventive. I conjoured up many different possibilities in my own mind with this one. Why would someone do this? Perhaps in seeing the flashing number it gives a sort purpose to ones own mortality...the more people who care about you (good or bad), the higher the number. Perhaps you just aren't ready to hear what people have to say...it's a bit of escapism. When the time is right, and the mind can handle it, I'll listen to those damned messages.

Anyway...whether I'm right or wrong, or completely off base, this was interesting and provoked my mind to wandering. I know that I often allow calls to go to voicemail because sometimes text messages and voicemails are easier to handle than actual human voices--how sad is that?

[Luke L]

I think mostly when I'm focusing on something I like to block interruptions... I am the type of person who would like to have a basement where I could block all outside noise and just work on getting really good at different creative skills...

I do have an answering machine, I am one of those rare people who just has a home phone (no cell phone) and it's not one with some kind of build in answering machine type thing :p

[Girl Friday (Sarah W.)]

Wow...no cell phone...craziness :)