Family Plan

I’m leaving the family plan
It’s high time I pay my own damn phone bill
Down on Atlantic Avenue
At the Verizon I realize
This is the last thing connecting me to you
I’m leaving the family plan
We decided over email
Like business associates
Instead of child and parent
Who’s the child now?
I don’t know where you’ve been living since you left
I get missed calls from an unknown 802
Is it you?
You got a new family plan
So do I
You at sixty-one
And me at twenty-five
Was the last time I saw you the last time I’ll see you alive?
I wait at the counter
I sip my water
I sign the paper
I’m no one’s daughter
I always knew, I always knew, I always knew
I never thought, I never thought, I never thought
One thing I still don’t understand
You were married for eight years before we were born
Were you happy back then?
This can’t have been the family plan