I needed to talk to my sister

talk to her on the telephone    I mean

just as I used to every morning

in the evening too whenever the

grandchildren said a sentence that

clasped both our hearts

I called    her phone rang four times

you can imagine my breath stopped    then

there was a terrible telephonic noise

a voice said    this number is no

longer in use    how wonderful I

thought    I can

call again they have not yet assigned

her number to another person despite

two years of absence due to death