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Topic: Telephone (07/17/08)
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TITLE: Haunting | Previous Challenge Entry
By Sheri Gordon
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Motionless. Mocking.
Ring, ring.
I suck in air and forget how to exhale.
Oh, maybe it’s…
No, it can’t be.
It never will be again.
I stare at the cold, taunting instrument.
Willing myself to pick it up.
No, thank you, I’m not interested.
Didn’t you hear me? I said no thank you!
It haunts me every day.
Sedentary. Scoffing.
I grasp the emotionless piece of equipment.
Trembling fingers depress too-familiar buttons
On the keypad.
Ring, ring.
We’re not home right now.
Our girls made us get this silly machine.
Leave a message and we’ll get back to you.
I suck in air and forget how to exhale.
Realizing I will never again have a conversation
With that distant, maternal voice.
Four years creep by.
I refuse to let it haunt me another day.
Unmoving. Uncaring.
Nothing but an impersonal tool of technology.
Ring, ring.
I suck in air and forget how to exhale.
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