This presentation will explore text messages and their connection to mythology and niche communities. The poet receives messages in the form of an image, word, or phrase, and the art of writing is then to translate those received impressions into an aesthetic composition. In my experience texting dialogues have been a sustained source of collaboration and creative insight. These communication technologies create new artistic infrastructure and allow niche communities to develop, and unheard voices to emerge.This type of reception is prefigured in the Oracle of Delphi. Pythia, sitting above a fissure in the earth receives messages which are then transcribed into poetry. In text messaging words can produce new insights that are received like an oracle message. Sometimes texts are perfect Wildean aphorisms, sometimes, they arrive like flashes of insight, sometimes they are disorienting, full of cryptic meaning. We are all interpreters and transcribers of this vast system of received messages. Information is shared and communities solidified, yet even Pythia or the poet hears only one voice at a time. The dark side to this plethora of messages is the fragmentation of our minds and culture. Hundreds of voices compete for attention in the little mirror of our cellular devices. Marshal McLuhan described the narcotic effect of advanced technologies, and this seems apparent when we hypnotically gaze into the pool of our obsidian screens waiting for the next message. These impressions and how they influence my own writing practices will be fully explored in the presentation: Receiving Messages.