Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Overread at Booth 3: Lament for the Answering Machine

from 366.

123.

Ah, that
which we used to say
we cannot say any
more, those

words

are lost to a new
ed/gene
r
a
t
i
o
n.

How will they know
that we don't want to talk to
them right now, when
we say
"Leave your message after the beep."
?

When we say
"tape it"
they think
we want to
wrap something
in sticky masking,

not record it for
future posterity.

I used to
be able to tell
 you, that
I'd like to
push
the rewind button
on this relationship.

But there
is no rewind button
any more.









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