the conference call

you try to arrange
all of your
telemarketers to call you
at the same time,
so that you can have
a conference call.
give them each a chance
to sell their pills,
their mortgages,
their roofs and replacement
windows. you want to give
each of them a chance to
explain their needs at
the policeman's fund,
the fireman's fund,
etc., some are in india
or china,
so it takes a lot of
planning, but it finally
happens. friends are made
as they all chatter at
once in their second or
third languages, you let them go
on and on with their spiels,
until finally you get
them to be quiet and you
tell them, as loudly and as
succinctly as possible,
No. and please
don't call again.