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Static Soul

from Self, Soul, Someone by Owlrooster

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Sometimes I fall asleep to the hum inside my head and think of disk drives. It’s odd to realize that there are people who will never see a CD when it’s such an essential part of how I understand myself. I load CDs in and out of the drive of my mind constantly, burning onto some and reading off others. They’re not labeled, but I know each one intimately when I load it in. I can describe every detail being etched in in, and I see my face looking back at me as the latest disk spins up.

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One plus one
is not two, but ten,
and eleven, and eighty-four
colorbars on an old CRT, analogue antiques
of a digital world; and I am embodied
in sleek silver plastic and a blinking terminal screen,
embodied in the hum
of static and cooling fans.


Flip a bit, light up bytes,
fill my wires with blights
flickering and glimmering and growing,
the glow erasing the gaps;
wipe clean my circuits and start anew
with a self, a soul, a someone.
Teach the machine to dream that
one plus one is not two,
but ten and eleven and eighty-four,
then watch it breathe.

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from Self, Soul, Someone, released February 17, 2022

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Electronic music producer and nerd exploring emotions, identity, and experiences through music.

Also an eldritch abomination fond of stealing green beans and leaving them under the beds of billionaires to weird them out, but that's beside the point. ... more

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