mystery!

My thumb against the telephone
is a wet mystery

why every time i touch the two
things become slick, well...I can't imagine.
the two things both become things I don't understand
to misunderstand one's own thumb!
so go all of my days.

I used the telephone half as much as I thought I would
today
I used the telephone twice as much as I did
yesterday
I use the telephone about four fifths as much as I mean to
on the weekends
I use the telephone not nearly as much as a normal person would
at work

and all the time! my thumb!