• Vol. 05
  • Chapter 10
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THE COUNTER APP

Hey Jimmy, c’mere,
check this out!
Similar to ours,
the original C2R2OH
that helped us keep
everyone asleep.
Ours was blue,
This is the counter app –
Don’t look, Jimmy,
it’s moving, spinning
The ears and neck,
familiar – Amazing!
Bigger lines, bright
red on a brick background,
a map of sorts,
different though,
a fingerprint of the mind,
Yea, yea, concentric circles,
Don’t stare at it, Jimmy,
it’s hypnotic, sucks you in,
a kind of mask that
supplants the face, hides it,
revealing a litany of
coded Facebook insults,
a search that Google
can’t locate or deliver,
It’s infecting me!

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THE COUNTER APP

I feel myself twisting
and turning, my mind
waking up!
Step away, Jimmy!
Do it now!

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