w8 lang!

For the anxiety of waiting, in its pure state, requires that I be sitting in a chair within reach of the telephone, without doing anything.

Waiting is an enchantment: I have received orders not to move. Waiting for a telephone call is thereby woven out of tiny unavowable interdictions to infinity: I forbid myself to leave the room, to go to the toilet.

Barthes

Please, Mr. Postman, look and see
Is there a letter, a letter for me?
I've been standin' here waitin', Mr. Postman
So so patiently

The Marvelettes

Each time it rings (the telephone) I snatch up the receiver. I think it will be the loved being who is calling me (since that being should call me). I recognize the other's voice

Barthes

If I didn't think about it, maybe the telephone might ring. Sometimes it does that.

Dorothy Parker

And, long after the amorous relation is allayed. I keep the habit of hallucinating the being I have loved: sometimes I am still in anxiety over a telephone call that is late, and no matter who is on the line, I imagine I recognize the voice I once loved: I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg.

Barthes

Wong Kar Wai

Heart on the floor when the telephone rings

Charli XCX

Then, too on the telephone the other is always in a situation of departure; the other departs twice over, by voice and by silence: whose turn is it to speak? We fall silent in unison: crowding of two voids. I'm going to leave you, the voice on the telephone says with each second.
"Am I in love? — Yes, since I'm waiting". The other never waits, the lover is the always the one who waits

Barthes

I don't want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait