ON THE PHONE
We talk on the phone.
Email is only the written word.
We want to hear our friend’s
intonation, emphases, stutterings,
uncertainties, passion . . .
We discuss going crazy in
our regal isolation,
how we fill the time grown ageless,
if any friends have become ill . . .
When will we actually touch!
Yet, after a while
we realize that
a voice on the phone
words in an email
even Zoom
could all arrive after death.
--Ray Greenblatt
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