the itemized bill finally posted today, eleven days for four minutes, and next to the outgoing call at 2:52am there is no destination number the way every other line on that page has a destination number, there is a cell site id instead, six digits, and under it a location string the carrier prints for engineers and not customers, i only have it because the girl on the phone read it out to me like it was nothing. SITE 42-B, RTE 15 SB PM 42.4. same postmile ive typed here more times than i want to go back and count, forty two point four, and i did not drive that stretch that night, i did not drive it this year, i have not driven it since before my aunt died and that was four years ago, five now, i keep losing track of which one it is. the tower that carried a call i dont remember making sits inside the six miles that camera 70 lights up for no reason the district will put on paper.

four for four on callbacks that never come and now this makes five, i called about the light again same as i called about 305, same guy i think, they dont give names on that line anymore, he said the light isnt tower infrastructure, towers dont light lanes, which is true and also not the question, i asked why my phone bounced off a site inside a dead corridor at 2:52 in the morning while i was asleep in my own bed forty some miles from it, he said thats not really something the district tracks and put me on hold for a check and see that never came back. my mother kept every baby tooth we ever lost in a jam jar on top of the fridge, i still have the jar, i dont know why that surfaced just now, anyway. the tower is real, the site id is real, i have the printout in the folder with the truck pages and the dates page and everything else nobody at that office wants to look at twice.

Not calling that line again this month.