This past afternoon,
Phone rang in the distance,
Ruth said she had to get that,
Two Minutes literally she was back,
I had figured much longer,
Then she surprised me,
She said you know I only really talk to you!
No one in sixty -five years rather talk long to me over anyone else,
Then Ruth said ‘You know that right!’
What I sincerely wanted to ask was ‘Why?’
No one ever rather talk to,
This Iowan poet!