G. David SCHWARTZ is former president of Seedhouse, an online interfaith committee. Schwartz is the author of A Jewish Appraisal of Dialogue, and coauthor, with Jacqueline Winston, of Parables In Black and White. Currently a volunteer at Drake Hospital in Cincinnati, Schwartz continues to write. His new book, Midrash and Working Out Of The Book is in stores now.
THE TELEPHONE
The telephone rings and its my job
To look, to look, to look like an idiot
I do my job very well
I see, I see, I see, not a thing.