Poetry of Phone Spam

Outlook and Communicator are integrated with the phone system, so missed calls and messages appear in an email folder. This means I know the number of every phone that tries to reach my desk.

Sometimes I punch unknown numbers into a search engine to see what I get. If they are phone spam, which unknown numbers from some other area code usually are, I find a bulletin board where other people have reported the same number. They complain about the sales pitch, or the rudeness, or what have you. I don't leave complaints. I just do this to validate my suspicions.

Found the most interesting complaint today:

me git a call and tey hang up. i duont call back. i get messege and man is dead but spirit caling. he is ghost. -- melikileya kootamaata

Not interesting: Inspired. Is this the reflection of a distant culture, a person late of the forest who sleeps with spirits and has recently moved into a world of flashing lights and cell phones? Or was this someone with a poetic sense of irony, who sees many existential layers at one time and has made their phone spam moment into an opportunity to create beauty?

All of the above and more.

Okay, now I wish I had a stronger sense of humor, cause this was probably really funny and I missed it.