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Daddy Goose38
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0 posted 2013-03-23 04:41 PM



I Can’t Talk

I feel a painful, paralyzing isolation
I can’t use the telephone.
It is too expensive for routine use.
I can hear perfectly on Skype,
The best in fifteen years
But only know how to talk with two.
It’s been three months now
And I still don’t know how to manage contacts.
I don’t even know how to add them,
And can’t talk with friends.
They don’t seem to know anything about it …
And they do not talk on there.
They are all married and have family commitments.
I talk to Sister on it,
And it sounded as if she were right here in my house,
Like I wanted to make us coffee.
And not a thousand miles away.

And it didn’t even cost us anything?
I don’t know how to get back on Messenger
And don’t know who’s on that either.
I’ll never visit with my distant friend again.
But I am resigned to that;
And that I will never keep up with them
Before they pass out of my life.
I’m being battered by a persistent, painful longing and despair.
There’re teaching me and The teachers will get me there eventually.
And I miss people who have not left yet.
It has already been three months …
I will never keep up with them.
Before they pass out of my life.
But I can fantasize of what may never be.

Jaime



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jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas
1 posted 2013-03-23 07:53 PM


Tough, my man . . . no easy way out I guess. Haven't used skype tho my kids have ... fairly new to cell, and thinking of ditching my land-line too.

Think I'll go back to smoke --- it was free, but now they'd probably arrest you for starting a fire ... tried standing on the roof, damp blanket over the chimney ... almost died, my wife threated to shoot me if I didn't quit smoking up the house...


Good write, painful...

j.


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