Telephone Poem by Nikki Giovanni

Cans and strings and backyard trees
giggles coming up through the wire
summer mud pies and lemonade stands
Hand Up No You Hang Up

Potatoes must be piled mile high
Then yhou add the leaves
Daddies always light the fires
Hang Up No You Hang Up

Marrage children Divorce Jobs
Ambitions eat our days away
Girl I miss our silly times
Hang Up No You Hang Up

Nikki Giovanni is the author of thirteen books of poetry.
She recied the Langston Hughes medal for Outstanding Poetry.
She is now a professor of Engish at Virginia Polytechnic.