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Queuing for Telephone Laughter

Infixed in this slug train of human forms
Like a mile of ants endlessly paraded
In the hopeless hope of reaching
The service window pane
A fortnight of enduring stationary queues
This suffocating procession of

Dejected
Disheartened
Depressed
Service seekers

Fixed and thrust, breasts to backs
Turning in a cushioned arm chair,
His gullet greedily downing  water from the water bottle,
A posh pen playfully patting his fat baby face
His short big fingers rubbing his knees
The service provider cackling for hours on
A handset swam in bubbles of laughter.

We too in imitation
Joined his telephone joy
Chorusing a full volume
Chuckles
Cackles
Ecstatic laughters
And the amusement
With our cell phones clumped on our ears.

Instantly noticing our mocking reflection
The fat over weight server bolted the shutter
Waved us off; resumed his water- bottle-
Telephone merry and

The chair-wheeling gymnastics.
                                     Rurekyera Geofrey

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