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the telephone operator
Christopher Mulrooney has written poems and translations in Los Angeles Journal, Chiron Review, Segue, Burning Leaf, The Drunken Boat and Voices Israel; criticism in Pyramid, The Film Journal and Parameter; and a volume of verse called "notebook and sheaves" (AmErica House, 2002).
By Christopher Mulrooney
if I pick up the phone
the dead signal or
the live one
if the former
I disregard it
if the latter
I forestall it
Published November 2005
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