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Ships in the Digital Night

from Torn​-​to​-​Pieces​-​Hood by PAT PHELAN

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No reply when I asked to get coffee.
Once more you checked my profile.
I guess I wasn’t your style.
Some defect in my looks or words.
And the socioeconomics just made it worse.

Still, I lingered on your digital footprint,
Found you on multiple platforms…
Looked with diminishing returns
At selfies with your friends and cats.
Could cut your brother’s cheek bones out of a magazine.
I can laugh, it’s absurd, but it still burns me bad,
The magic trick of voyeuristic intimacy.

It’s like shit at the mall that you can’t afford:
I look at you through the glass and I get sad and bored.

The patterns we consumed in youth still filter me and filter you.
What are little boys and girls to do?
I get all scared: “She’ll laugh. She won’t like me.”
Meanwhile in your head: “Will he kill me?”
Then I read your Dad died…
Shot by the woman he left your mother for in the middle of the night.
Trauma like that doesn’t come cheap. I sent my love, though we’d never speak.
May you be at peace…he be at peace…she be at peace…we be at…
Well, we offer up our privacy in gratitude, unreservedly.
Baptize our billion baby heads in the data stream. The data stream. The data stream.
But, Lord, all my life, what have I done? Avoid a gaze, try to outrun
The me inside you. You inside me. Me inside you. You inside me.
We.
We.
We.

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from Torn​-​to​-​Pieces​-​Hood, released May 15, 2020
Synth/Bass/Drum Machine/Lead Guitar/Glockenspiel : Adam Lepkowski
Guitar/Voice: Pat Phelan

Written by Pat Phelan
Produced by Adam Lepkowski

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