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It can easily wait until later 

For me to make a phone call

Until you are done with using it

To visit with your far distant friend 

We’re in a kind of throwback situation 

Of bygone household landlines 

When one phone was quite enough 

The way it was for us growing up 

Now it makes us eccentric seniors 

The way you keep yours turned off

To be used only when we are apart 

And otherwise what's mine is ours

Sometimes when I call my friend 

He says he can't talk right then

Because he's on a long distance call

As if there's any difference now 

The way he is mindful of the phone bill

What used to be charged for every minute 

The way the past can become an anachronism

When we continue to practice the old ways

Like how we prefer to wash our dishes by hand 

Using the dishwasher for extra storage 

Seeing it as not necessary in our lives 

Being used to living without one

But one thing that’s better for sure

The single bathroom house upgrade

What cannot always easily wait until later

So much better now we have two