AP English Literature and Composition Quiz
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Read the following poem and answer the question.
"Voicemail"
I let your call become a small red dot
that blooms on my screen like a warning berry.
The phone keeps singing; I keep rinsing plates.
Water runs and runs, a practiced alibi.
When it stops, the silence makes a space
big enough for what you might have said.
I dry my hands. I do not press play.
Instead I set the phone face down, as if
it could not speak through wood and gravity.
Later, in bed, I listen to the house
explain itself in pipes and settling boards.
Your message waits, obedient as a dog
I will not name because it might stay.
The speaker's decision to set the phone face down most strongly indicates
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