Telephone Booth Number 905 1/2
by Reverend Pedro Pietri

woke up this morning
feeling excellent,
picked up the telephone
dialed the number of
my equal opportunity employer
to inform him I will not be in to work today.
“Are you feeling sick?”
the boss asked me
“No Sir,” I replied:
“I am feeling too good
to report to work today.
If I feel sick tomorrow
I will come in early!”

From The United States of Poetry episode “A Day in the Life.”
Copyright Washington Square Arts, 1995.