Please stay on the line ─ waiting, waiting, waiting in line, in lines, on-the-line while ... Muzak, playing rings around and around; a merry-go-round of instrumental oblivion
twenty minutes times infinity life in a bottle floating on an ocean of numbers, rings, dial tones, silence disembodied voices giving quarterback signals that misdirect a defense throwing a yellow flag of neurosis an empty, time out, receding stare