1.
All agents are currently busy assisting
other callers.
Your call is very important to us.
Please stay on the line.
Your call will be answered in the order in
which it was received.
Camelot.
Kennedy died
generations ago,
and yet the
breadth of his smile still ripples through our culture
like a wave
of sound that
has become a
low murmur, below
audibility,
and can only
be felt,
like the dull thud of the bass
from the box
of
the car
that
slides beside,
driven by a
whiteboy in a Red Sox cap,
wearing gold
chains and a
mouth full
of someone else’s attitude.
Ask not what you can
do for your country,
ask what
bell this country
will toll
for you.
from "Your Call Will Be Answered in the Order in which It Was Received"
by MR
