Madam and the Phone Bill

Madam and the Phone Bill

You say I O.K.ed

LONG DISTANCE?

O.K.ed it when?

My goodness, Central

That was then!

Im mad and disgusted

With that Negro now.

I dont pay no REVERSED

CHARGES nohow.

You say, I will pay it--

Else youll take out my phone?

You better let

My phone alone.

I didnt ask him

To telephone me.

Roscoe knows darn well

LONG DISTANCE

Aint 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 didnt he tell me somen

I dont know?

For instance, what can

Them other girls do

That Alberta K. Johnson

Cant do--and more, too?

Whats that, Central?

You say you dont 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 aint gonna pay!

Langston Hughes