Someday, you will call me up
on the telephone,
and you will ask
if I am available. I will tell you
No.
Maybe I could someday tell you
Yes
if you would ask
if I could come last Tuesday
or last Christmas
or right at this very instant
in time. But you dont you never do
and I dont yet know
if (when) I will follow Anne
or Sylvia, or Emily or Jerome David.
She told us what his initials
stood for, and now I cannot
name him by the letters.
Anna sings through speakers
to me and there is a book
of Complete Works
and a book of Selected
Pieces on the bed
beside me, along with the radios
remote contr