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the sidewalk hums like a broken amp left on overnight in someone else's dream i walk through graffiti-thoughts and half-lit diners where the coffee tastes like old vinyl someone’s shouting about revolution but it sounds like a dial-up modem trying to connect to god my hands are paperbacks dog-eared and underlined by strangers who never finished the chapter there’s a girl with a cigarette and a cassette player taped to her ribs she says “noise is holy” and i believe her because silence feels like a betrayal the moon is just a streetlamp with delusions of grandeur and i am just a static channel between stations
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Oct 23, 2025
Oct 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM UTC
feedback loop in a borrowed city
the sidewalk hums like a broken amp left on overnight in someone else's dream i walk through graffiti-thoughts and half-lit diners where the coffee tastes like old vinyl someone’s shouting about revolution but it sounds like a dial-up modem trying to connect to god my hands are paperbacks dog-eared and underlined by strangers who never finished the chapter there’s a girl with a cigarette and a cassette player taped to her ribs she says “noise is holy” and i believe her because silence feels like a betrayal the moon is just a streetlamp with delusions of grandeur and i am just a static channel between stations
mauricio
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Oct 23, 2025
Oct 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM UTC
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