QUESTION: Romeo and Juliet TXT source?

[Ryan Goble]

By now all you English teachers have probably seen this txt. Here's my issue (and I mentioned this in an older R&J post. All over the web they attribute the txt below to New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast HOWEVER, I did a search of the New Yorker and the Cartoon Bank and only come up with Chast's famous "IM's of Romeo and Juliet."

Anyone know if this txt below is really Roz Chast and if so what New Yorker issue it appeared in?

Romeo and Juliet text messages

Act 1
Login: Romeo : R u awake? Want 2 chat?
Juliet: O Rom. Where4 art thou?
Romeo: Outside yr window.
Juliet: Stalker!
Romeo: Had 2 come. feeling jiggy.
Juliet: B careful. My family h8 u.
Romeo: Tell me about it. What about u?
Juliet: 'm up for marriage f u are. Is tht a bit fwd?
Romeo: No. Yes. No. Oh, dsnt mat-r, 2moro @ 9?
Juliet: Luv U xxxx
Romeo: CU then xxxx

Act 2
Friar: Do u?
Juliet: I do
Romeo: I do

Act 3
Juliet: Come bck 2 bed. It's the nightingale not the lark.
Romeo: OK
Juliet: !!! I ws wrong !!!. It's the lark. U gotta go. Or die.
Romeo: Damn. I shouldn't hv wasted Tybalt & gt banished.
Juliet: When CU again?
Romeo: Soon. Promise. Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu.
Juliet: Miss u big time.

Act 4
Nurse: Yr mum says u have 2 marry Paris!!
Juliet: No way. Yuk yuk yuk. n-e-way, am mard 2 Rom.

Act 5
Friar: Really? O no. U wl have 2 take potion that makes u look ded.
Juliet: Gr8

Act 6
Romeo: J-why r u not returning my texts?
Romeo: RUOK? Am abroad but phone still works.
Romeo: TEXT ME!
Batty: Bad news. J dead. Sorry l8

Act 7
Romeo: J-wish u wr able 2 read this...am now poisoning & and climbing in yr grave. LUV U Ju xxxx

Act 8
Juliet: R-got yr text! Am alive! Ws faking it! Whr RU? Oh...
Friar: Vry bad situation.
Juliet: Nightmare. LUVU2. Always. Dagger. Ow!!!

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by cartoonist Roz Chast, first published in the New Yorker