Payable on Death
Susan was with him.
They brought a shepherd’s pie.
Nobody mentioned a bank.
And on the eighth of October she telephoned me at twenty past seven in the evening and we spoke for six minutes, and I have the record of it, and I remember the whole call because it was the last one.
She asked whether my wheel bearing was fixed.
I said not yet.
She said I should get it done before the winter.