Life without Caller ID

The professional fundraising cabal

Claims it’s a ‘courtesy call’

They try to extort

Financial support,

That is not courteous at all.

When you talk to those fundraising creeps,

Ask what their charity reaps

Maybe ten cents to spend

Of every dollar you send

And the rest the fundraiser keeps.

If when answering the phone I’m aware

Of background noise and dead air

Then someone mangles my name -

I feel no shame

In telling them I am not there.