Calling Grief

this is what I would say,

If I were your  real mother–

Use the pink phone with the rubber buttons 

the canned voice locked inside it

–May I help you? She would ask gamely

Each time you rang her up

She would

Drop everything 

Just to hear your voice

At the other end of the line.

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