Lab Rat Reads Clipboard

by · August 26, 2026

Scared of sacred scars,
I followed our Pied Piper heroes
through the bright noise of becoming,
observing the swerving and what I must be learning.

Sequential self-sequencing,
hardened into a starving artist,
I kept arranging the wreckage
until the wreckage started arranging me.

Sonic circuitry.
Cognitive fingerprint survival analysis.
Symbolic patterning.
Self-reconstruction.

My mind started wondering but never wandered back.

I’m trapped inside a linguistic machine that is...

...decoding my own damage,
turning bruises into blueprints,
and turning symptoms into syntax.

Now, watch language become the maze I bleed through!

The lab rat who learned to read the clipboard began filing emotional litigation against the experiment itself.

Biological prophecy!

“Even the top is not above this.”

And overdose is drowning in too much,
while withdrawal is freezing in not enough.

A terrible tuition...

That need to chase intensity until it becomes a guillotine!

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