cold coffee on a greasy keyboard
the cursor blinks like a dying star
or a strobe light in a basement club
where the only music is the sound of a hard drive failing
i tried to love a ghost in the machine
but she was just a regex error
a loop that never closed
a memory leak in my chest
everything smells like ozone and old cigarettes
we are trading our souls for bandwidth
and the exchange rate is plummeting
lick the salt off the server rack
feel the static electricity
that is the only thing
still touching me
404 soul not found
try again in the next reboot