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Langston Hughes - Madam And The Phone Bill
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You say I O.K.ed
LONG DISTANCE?
O.K.ed it when?
My goodness, Central
That was then!

I`m mad and disgusted
With that Negro now.
I don`t pay no REVERSED
CHARGES nohow.

You say, I will pay it—
Else you`ll take out my phone?
You better let
My phone alone.

I didn`t ask him
To telephone me.
Roscoe knows darn well
LONG DISTANCE
Ain`t free.

If I ever catch him,
Lawd, have pity!
Calling me up
From Kansas City.

Just to say he loves me!
I knowed that was so.
Why didn`t he tell me some`n
I don`t know?

For instance, what can
Them other girls do
That Alberta K. Johnson
Can`t do—and more, too?

What`s that, Central?
You say you don`t care
Nothing about my
Private affair?

Well, even less about your
PHONE BILL, does I care!

Un-humm-m! . . . Yes!
You say I gave my O.K.?
Well, that O.K. you may keep—

But I sure ain`t gonna pay!
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