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The Telephone

The telephone rang
in my dream Long Distance from
my dead father

Impersonation?
Who and why? The voice was his
my dead father's voice

dead a month ago
I'd turned sixty-one Mother
I was bewildered

in my dream I asked
what think you brothers sisters?
I wondered and I woke.

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