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“O” STOOD FOR OPERATOR

We were curious about everything
and fascinated by the sounds
and the sights that we saw
all around us and more.
We wanted to know all about them,
who made them and when;
we took them apart
again and again
trying to figure out
what made them work,
how voices could squeeze through
those skinny lines on the poles
that connected our houses
and the world that we knew,
that transmitted our friendships
and our innermost thoughts
when we dialed each other up
on that trusty rotary phone
where O stood for Operator,
that real live person
on the other end of the line
who, in case I had trouble dialing,
could always put me through.

We were just kids back then
and technology was new,
bright
and shiny
and fascinating,
that’s all we knew
and wanted to know more.

Now this treasure from the past
joins others that we’ve known,
the ones that sit on the shelves
of the antique store in town
and in the back corner
of my closet down the hall
reserved for such memories
and wonderful things
as the rotary phone.

(c) barbara kausteklis 6-30-11

Written for Drips of Ink/
“Blast From the Past – Rotary Phone.”

http://www.myspace.com/drips_of_ink/blog/543434101

Thanks always for all visits and comments.

~barb~