Butterfly Effect - ressourcesfeministes

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I go to breakfast and mention this to a colleague.
If your mother is in hospital, she'll be all right.
No one dies of heart attack if they've made it to the hospital.
x
During the reading, a poet almost breaks down
reading a poem about her mother.
She tells me later that her mother is ninety
and it's beginning to worry her.
xi
At the end of the day another poet tells me
his father died when he was at a conference last year.
xii
I drive an American academic back to the hotel via the beach.
She tells me of a paper she had heard by a woman who
had arrived ten minutes after her mother died.
xiii
I am reading Almanac of the Dead.
xiv
I ring you at the hospital.
You get out of bed to speak to me.
You say, This is expensive, Dear,
I'd better go.