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6d
//debug.log: afterfeel
i wrote the ache down,
filed it under temp/data/emotions_v27/
and still—
it boots at startup.
don’t ask me where it hurts.
it’s in the whitespace.
it’s in the semicolon i forgot to place
between “i’m fine”
and “but.”
you think this is poetry?
nah.
this is me
trying to
make the silence less slippery
.
i’ve been laughing in sans-serif
so nobody prints me in italics.
i bury metaphors like landmines
because i don't want your sympathy—
i want your
uncertainty
.
this isn’t an elegy.
it’s a
system restore point
.
and if you’re reading this,
know:
i didn’t survive it to write about it.
i wrote about it
so i wouldn’t
code myself out of the scene
.
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https://hellopoetry.com/poem/5073678/architect-of-fallout-oracle-of-the-glitch/
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