/// The first long-distance call had gone well,
despite frowns from the gathered cartel.
And the man on the phone
has a face not well-known,
but be sure that his name rings a bell.

/// They’re amazed by this long-distance call.
Places far away seem “down the hall.”
New York contacts Chicago!!
Yet, today, Pago Pago
can be reached on a phone sleek and small.

/// The whole globe is now truly connected,
now that wireless has been perfected.
Your phone goes where you go.
No cord is status quo,
and no long distance fees are collected.

/// Bell invented the phone? No, not quite.
But he got the first patent all right.
Meucci led the way,
(Truth is in shades of gray.)
Often history’s not black and white.

/// The first person to build a true phone
was Italian, Meucci alone.
Later on was a Frenchman,
before Bell and his henchmen
got the patent assigned as his own.