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Infanta calls from the islands where she’s working on “the script,”

That tapestry of travesty, carefully warping the details of this life along

Some more persuasive weft. She says she knows I’ve had it hard lately,

& after my silence, she replies, Ah, I can hear you’re back in your cell!

So I say, What? Then she says to me once more, I said I can tell

That you’re back in your shell…. So I say again, What? Just call me

On my cell, she says, as the signal fades, & the air goes cold & blank.