exams in a few hours / I'm replaying pokemon for the nth time

to escape into those afterschool afternoon trysts with pixels / 8

16 32 64 bits bit by bit / joy in each one of them tending towards

infinity // this time it's not sleepless nights but wakeless days / eyes

do not look / just scamscan barcode souls for utility's sake // click

link to join / are you talking your mic is turned off / the video has

to be turned on / phone under the table anyway // my regret my guilt

my nostalgia is not lessened by my youth because time isn't linear

when it passes through us // I've submitted / I've turned in // in platonic

caves of google meet / mayabazaars of zoom calls / stuck in worldwide

webs, caught in the internets / might forget the difference between being

live and being alive / islands of our own drowning in binary oceans / though

I prefer pixels to people with their punching gravity // gullies by constant

revision turned into palace corridors / now lonely king, do not give up

your kingdom for nothing / rage rage against the dying rage // back to pokemon

it's the same story told over & over again but every time you catch new

pokemon, make new teams, take new routes / do I suggest a connection

with life / do I add the other bits / you were defeated / are you sure you want

to quit / got away safely / the game file is corrupted do you want to restart / do you

want to save your progress / game over / start a new game / game over

~Ajay
18/12/2020