Why Do I Keep Answering the Phone

I do not get any words in She rambles for the full forty-two minute phone call I set the phone down a few times to do other things She was still talking when I picked it back up This has been our pattern for forever I am not sure why I keep answering the phone Except, today, she did inspire two new poems. I pick up a pen and write with abandon Getting all of my words on paper The ones I did not get to share