Circle

Poetry does not get much better than the exceedingly fine example below...

Circle

Now are we saying goodbye?

I think so but can't be sure.

The last phone call but one

Left everything up in the air.

When you called last, did you mean

What you said when you said you meant 

To say that this call would be

The last if I didn't call?

In fact, I'm not sure at all

If you called or I called you back.

And did you say "goodbye,"

Or I say "good night" and you

Say "Do you mean ‘good night'

Or ‘goodbye'?" I think it was you.

And what were you trying to do

When you said, "You said we're through?"

How could that be since you

Were the first to bring it up?

I don't think it's what I said,

Though you keep saying I did.

In any case, now that you know

That you know what I meant to say,

Why don't you say what you mean?

I mean if you mean to say

That the last call was the last.

I think that that would be best.

If something is finished, it's just

As well to get up and go.

If you're interested still to know,

I like a slate wiped clean,

And if you would pick up the phone,

I'd tell you what I mean.

-- Howard Moss

You really have to love Moss's technique: he used the poem's form and structure to help tell his story. Not familiar with poem structures? No problem; he lays it all out for you. 

Really, quite brilliant!

-- David M Gordon / The Deipnosophist