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I glow above the municipal bench—warm plastic, LED constellations. My password is a prayer written twice. Thumbs gather: uploading birthdays, downloading luck. Leisure and need feel different in the heat: CVs migrate like starlings; a voice note crosses a province to say sorry. The spinner drums the table until a bar rises like chest light. A child learns a dance from a stranger’s city. Say it with bars, not boasts.
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I glow above the municipal bench, my password a prayer written twice. Thumb-clouds gather under me, uploading birthdays, downloading luck. I feel the difference between leisure and need: CVs migrate like starlings, a voice note crosses a province to say sorry. Bars rise and fall like breathing light. A child learns a dance from a stranger’s city. Say it with bars, not boasts.
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