The poet's name popped up on my telegram account a few days
ago.
the alert said that
her number had just logged in
It startled me to say the least, making me wonder if this
was yet another effort to ferret me out all these years later.
though in fact she could not have known I had an account
because I had changed numbers more than once since those days when we texted
I had kept her number in my contacts along with that of her
brother, her stepmother and others who had bushwhacked me during her birthday
exchange in July 2012 but I made a point never to call it
When her name popped up on my screen as a new telegram
subscriber I was tempted to delete it but was puzzled by the fact that the
photo associated with the account was not of her but rather some Korean woman
I contacted the person just to check
she confirmed she was
not the poet, yet immediately directed me to another account and shortly after
this the account with the poet’s number was deleted-- something that also
startled me.
It's not that the Korean woman was annoyed by my contact. in
fact she continued the conversation at the new link but when I asked her later
how long she had had the number associated with the poet she said not long
this led me to assume the poet had given up the number, possibly
because she got sick of getting texts from her stalkers or perhaps gave it up
in connection with her most recent move north from where she lived
still there are several unanswered questions such as how his
Korean woman currently living in Miami got a cell phone with a 201 area code
This leaves me to wonder was the number still the poet’s
after all and my contact freaked her out
the Korean woman
continues to text me, seeming to verify that she who is who she is
yet the whole exchange comes off at an odd moment a bit of
synchronicity perhaps or perhaps just a coincidence, making me wonder if I am
actually talking to the poet after all, even though the Korean woman does not come
across the way I remember the poet doing so.
Maybe I’m just being paranoid
No comments:
Post a Comment