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Crack lower corner
Laptop breathing warm
Your thread still pinned above the weather alarm
I scrolled past birthdays
Recipes to fight
Two years compressed beneath one strip of light
Every home safe, every pickup milk
Every blue apology dressed up in silk
My finger found delete then moved away
I won't call nothing what once filled my days
The blue wheel turned around our names
Not burning it, not staying the same

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But the progress will spin
18,000 messages folded with it
I won't call a whole history dust
I just can't keep living inside
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Out of my favorites
Out of every morning

At 99 the little circle froze
On six kitchen seconds from a year ago
You burned the toast
I laughed behind the phone
You danced with the smoke alarm
They're all alone
No grand vacation, no cinematic
It's just Tuesday light
And what ordinary is
Played at once
The name, the file, the date
The fan blew hot
While I learned not to wait

But the progress will spin
18,000 messages folded with it
I won't call a whole history dust
I just can't keep living inside
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Delete felt like riding love away
As if we never lived a single day
But keeping you open made each dawn repeat
I can stop opening you without erasing you
I moved the silver drive beneath the spoons
And gave the desk some room

But the progress will spin
18,000 messages folded with it
I won't call a whole history dust
I just can't keep living inside
Archive us

Thread unpinned
Laptop closed
The drawer stays shut