Author: Joy Priest
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THE PAYPHONE by Joy Priest
Disappeared from the landscape. Slick & black in the Tangerine Diner Where I stood to speak into the handpiece Greasy with other people’s oil & spit. Gone that day’s newspaper, boot-printed, The dog walking itself leash-in-mouth Down the small avenue, the bookstore Where I felt the train rumble past On the other side of the…