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The Phone
Problem

The back of a woman's head as she uses an original 1920s candlestick telephone in a sepia-toned room

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A simple question

nobody knows..

How phones change your voice

into ones and zeros?

The back of a woman's head as she uses a 1970s rotary dial telephone in a retro living room

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Then beams this signal

bouncing off satellites,

not at the speed of sound,

but of light.

The back of a woman's head as she uses a 1990s flip cell phone held to her ear

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And then you're speaking,

without knowing how,

to someone in

Ohio, Brazil or Macau

The back of a woman's head as she stares down at a glowing modern iPhone in a dark room

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So could it be chance...

this tool we understand least?

Has swiped our children,

our time and our peace.

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