Trickster Calls

I’m with the phone company.
He says,
Having trouble with your phone?

No, I reply.

But you called for repairs!

No, I did not.

The wife maybe?

No! I insist,
There must be some mistake.

No, no mistake, mister.

Trickster hangs up.

I hang up the phone,
But suspicious now
I lift the receiver again
And listen,

The line is dead.

Later, it rings...
Is the wife home? he says.

(Previously published in The Poetry Victims)