Gershon Wolf Poet Prose

1-2-3 Texting

1-2-3 Texting, texting, texting
1-2-3 Texting, texting, texting
1-2-3 Texting, texting, texting

  Attention: This is just a test-text
  of the FCC's early-warning text
  alert system. If this had been an
  actual early-warning text alert,
  you would have received a text
  alerting you to that effect --

  High Urgency! Error Correction
  High Urgency! Error Correction
  Please stand by for an important
  Error Correction Acknowledgement:
  
     1-2-3 Un-texting
     1-2-3 Un-texting
     1-2-3 Un-texting

Attention: This is an actual un-text
from the FCC's un-texting system
Stand by for message content...
      
     Message Content
     Message Content

You have just received two 
conflicting texts. That is, to
be specific, a text followed
by an un-text. If you have
any questions or for further
information, please text 
your local FCC office at...



Copyright, all rights reserved 
Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C., June 31, 2020

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Caren Krutsinger July 28, 2020 at 4:40 AM I love the Un-texting! Love it!

Michelle Faulkner July 26, 2020 at 3:33 PM Pretty soon, we'll be sending Morse code in texts! Gershon Wolf July 26, 2020 at 4:47 PM Dat, dat, dat, dat's a very astute comment! lol. ~ Samuel Morse

Krish Radhakrishna July 26, 2020 at 3:11 AM Very nice! The sort of thing we have seen across the world recently! Brilliant write. Gershon Wolf July 26, 2020 at 4:41 PM Thanks for the support, Krish. Light and Joy, Gershon

Jennifer Proxenos July 26, 2020 at 12:09 AM Oh how confusing, and funny at the same time how bureaucracy can be! Well penned Gershon. Blessings, Jennifer. Gershon Wolf July 26, 2020 at 4:40 PM For auld lang syne -- Bureaucracy is always maligned and condemned --- and grows every more bloated every year. Pretty soon it will swallow the planet. lol. Thanks, Jennifer. :) gw

Sand Blown July 25, 2020 at 8:51 PM ...yes...sometimes beaureacrats earn their wages in the stupidist ways...all according to the rules....go figure...stan sand Gershon Wolf July 26, 2020 at 4:49 PM Sometimes, ha, ha! I'm wondering when a career bureaucrat has ever earned his pay in a meaningful, important way. These guys are, indeed, the underbelly of mankind. lol. ~ Gershoon Gershon Wolf July 26, 2020 at 4:35 PM Sometimes, ha, ha! I'm wondering when a career bureaucrat has ever earned his pay in a meaningful, important way. These guys are, indeed, the underbelly of mankind. lol. ~ Gershoon