What Folks Did(For Lyn)

She was born into a world without telephone...television motor car or aeroplane “all the damn modern things” she never did get used to even when they invidiously invaded her life. Even now in her little one room flat at the end of her life she berates the telephone. “It just rings and...rings! ” She loudly complains. “And that’s why I don’t answer the thing! ” “It won’t...leave me alone! ” I ask her with laughter what did folks do without these things how did they get by. “What did folks do? ” She sighs as if telling a child: “We used to...love one another! ”