Things to do when trying not to listen to a phone conversation

The poem: Things to do around a Look-Out by Gary Snyder was suggested to me as a good read.
I haven't managed to access it yet but I was inspired by his title to write

Things to do when trying not to listen to a phone conversation

Keep doing what you're supposed
To be doing.

Even if the inflections of her voice
Change from chirp to flat.

Don't hold your breath
At her pause.

Keep breathing, even though
The pause stretches beyond hopeful.

Don't look at the clock;
Time may mean nothing

And you will have to wait
Regardless

To hear her news
Good, bad or ambivalent.

And keep praying
Or finger crossing

Or bead counting.
For that is probably

The only thing
You can do.