Answering Machine · posted 2004-04-26 by Glenn Franxman


Can not speak right now.
Please leave your name and number,
once you’ve heard the tone.

I find myself looking for haiku in everyday situations. Answering machines and instant messenger away messages are great ways to insert haiku into your existance.

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Can you haiku?

  1. IM Away Message

    I cannot answer.
    This message is my excuse:
    Out writing haiku.
    — glenn1you0    Apr 27, 10:21am    #
  2. I-M-In Message

    Rush hour mem’ries
    Parking lots full of spaces
    Streets long with shadows.

    Lifeless monitors
    Cubicles teem with stale air
    One light remains on.

    Click-click, whisk, click-click
    Steady clammor of keystrokes
    I am still at work.
    — Eric E. Yang    Apr 27, 6:40pm    #
  3. can’t come to the phone
    committing hara-kiri
    leave me alone, jim…
    — guess    May 6, 10:43pm    #
  4. Please put down the knife.
    I have just one more question:
    Where’d my website go?
    — Jim    May 7, 11:48am    #
  5. been there all along
    my advice is: close your mouth
    and open your eyes
    — not admitting its me    May 7, 11:56am    #
  6. frantic customers
    high tension, higher drama
    panties in a wad
    — mock    Jan 3, 4:58pm    #
  7. my digital phone
    speaks to me-plaintive cooing
    only one who cares
    — maikindazen    Feb 14, 11:36pm    #
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