It may not be so much as when did you
G E T
A WRONG NUMBER
so much as when did you
DIAL ONE. . . ?
We are absolutely living in a time
of
GETTING
and
GIVING
the wrong numbers
and the more we’ve become experts at
c o m m u n i c a t i n g
the less we’ve become at
interacting
or worse
UNDERSTANDING
. . .BEING UNDERSTOOD

THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION
ARE SO HOPELESSLY TANGLE
that we have to
short-circuit
those very lines
by not
untangling
or sorting them out
but by
intently
purposely
intimately
H E A R I N G
(especially what’s not explicitly being said)
NOW. . .
it’s no longer a
LAUGHING MATTER. . .