Message
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I wasn’t here when you left the message. Now you aren’t there. I thought about not returning your call since I could guess what you wanted and I knew you would be angry with me because I couldn’t agree. It would have been almost masochistic of me to call you back just to put up with your recriminations and then have to try to explain myself again, knowing that you never listen to reason, or my reasons at least, that you make up your mind and then expect everyone else to support you and your position. So I think I’ll just leave this message in response, and you won’t even have to call me back, because I won’t have changed my mind. [End Page 213]
William Virgil Davis’s most recent book of poetry, Landscape and Journey, won the 2009 New Criterion Poetry Prize and the 2010 Helen C. Smith Memorial Poetry Award. He is the author of three other books of poetry, including One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize.
