From Writing Notebook 2021, published in 2022.
387.
Telephone:
Calls never welcome –
I dislike
most people –
Hear the ringing telephone?
No, this time I won’t.
11/15/21
388.
Friend page one –
My autograph book
a keepsake
Reminder
every time I open it
You’re my page one friend.
11/15/21
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
I’m not a big fan of the phone either. (K)
Almost never in my life have I wanted to talk on the phone more than just the bare bones of a conversation. I remember at work how much I used to have to talk on the phone and I wonder how I stood it!
It used to be the only way to communicate on a daily basis.
And I think about how expensive it was to call long distance.
Yes,thar roo.
That