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Grandma's Phone Book
by Marcia Sacks

 
Photomontage of an old-fashioned dial telephone, some purple fabric, and some foliage.  Grandma's Phone Book by Marcia Sacks.

Grandma pores over her telephone book
Her personal one
With numbers of family and friends

Similar to the obituary pages
Everybody's dead
Or in a nursing home

Grandma's in good health
Save aches and pains
But when she reads her phone book
Every breath becomes a moan

And there's no one to call

 

© 2002 by Marcia Sacks

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