"Telephone Booth Number 905 1/2" by Reverend Pedro Pietri (12:07 PM)

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