In this part of the poem, we learn that the farther is not over the death of his son's mother, which happened two years ago, and that he still caters for her by keeping her slippers 'warming by the gas, put hot water bottles her side of the bed and still went to renew her transport pass'. Upon reading this, I cannot help but feel sorry the the farther and this is because it is indicated that he will never fully lose the pain that he feels. What makes this even more upsetting is that he feels as if he is doing something wrong by this and has to hide it by clearing away 'her things' and has to 'look alone' as if he is hiding evidence from a crime scene.
Also, the son is telling us that this is what his farther now does. Again, this is also quite upsetting because the farther has become so obsessed with the mother's possessions that he no longer pays much attention to his son, who has become neglected. The farther thinks that the mother will one day return, thinking that he would 'hear her key scrape in the rusted lock and end his grief'. The son believes that 'life ends with death, and that is all'. This gives us an insight to why they were arguing in 'Long Distance I' - the son knows that the mother will not come back and he has tried to tell his farther this, but this has only angered him, leaving a 'disconnected number' for his son to call.
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