from my place

i overheard

them talking

in the mother tongue

through

the wires

 

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phone-to-phone

(I must have heard

them)

receiver.

 

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translator

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phone-to-phone

hanging on that kitchen wall

one in a kitchen with rooster

one next to the door of the pantry.