voicemail haiku

as you can no doubt tell, dear reader, i have been occupied lately with a couple new items of significant interest, which have absorbed a good deal of my attention &/or have a bit of a learning curve, with the upshot that i haven't had much time or inclination to post anything here. well, inclination, perhaps, but not for the leg work of developing a plan for said posting (and developing excuses and rationalizations for slacking on some of those partially-accomplished projects).

one of the attention absorbing items is a new portable communication device, with many advantages over my quaint old-fashioned "1.5-G" handset, foremost among which is that when i miss a call and wind up with a pending voicemail, i am informed of those facts in a prompt and reliable fashion.

which is why, in lieu of focusing sufficiently to craft a fresh post, or polish content for same, i've been thinking about voicemail haiku, some of which you may have failed to see previously because i didn't publish them into the past until just now (or, if you access through a reader, dear reader, you have probably just seen).

here's one that's pretty straightforward:

please leave your number
and identify yourself
after this brief tone.

and another

i’m in the office
now, so can’t talk but will call
back if they let me.

also:

no reasonable
privacy expectation
in voicemail: talk clear.

completing the series, haiku-ishly:

the consumer at this ex-
tension is out discharging
his obligation to gen-
erate and distribute wealth
so leave a message.

of course, voicemail itself these days may be an archaic and unnecessary convention. nevertheless, i sure do like answering machines, the hardware and set of matched language acts alike!