AGAIN AND AGAIN THE SAME SITUATION is no better or worse than Joni Mitchell, who sang all about this stuff, so there...o, it's a poem, as well....

AGAIN AND AGAIN THE SAME SITUATION


there is this song about a lady
waiting for a ringing telephone
in a room full of tears
or something like that
how can I be so older
and still no wiser
gotta ask the question
who is this creature
tethered to the magnets
that make a man
though the iron in me
rusts away more
every damn year
who is calling
that I wait and want
this way
without guile
but also
with the same
hopes and fears
how silly
even dumb
how human
how greedy
how warm even
kind this joining
that calls me
across the lines
that are phones
a human bonding
flesh and blood
nothing doing
much different
always the same songs
with the same harmonies
the same thrills
thrilling again
across bodies
across years
and years
still
the best
damn
deal
around