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Digital Grave

Anonymous's picture

The boy with
the headphones on
doesn't hear the
sound of the keyboard,
tapping away,
recording his life
into digitized pixels,
burned into the computer's
hard drive
and splayed across
the page
later to be pulled
out
and read at his funeral
as the reason behind
his suicide
as the writer
cries and thanks the gods
that she didn't
sign it
and that she can just
slip into the crowd
when it's all done
and walk away,
while the boy
with the headphones on
lies at the bottom of
a grave
of pixels and
megabytes.

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