Katherine’s Coffeehouse

Tinnitus

It’s absurd, this deafening ring, as if I’d put my ear by an air raid call, let the sound in, allowed the assault. The results are astoundingly inconsistent – deaf to the voice of my husband, overly sensitive to the wail of t.v. What was that you said, honey? Ouch. Please turn down the volume,

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Landline

That 1980’s phone, boxy against your ear – don’t you think we could hear better then? Didn’t we listen more closely back then? Nothing like these damn flat phones. I press them against the cartilage, grinding my lobe against the glass, earrings clinking. Whoosh. There’s the wind again. What was that you said? Never mind.

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