CYBERGHOSTS: halloween cookies

This month, DC Sentence Club is posting pieces on the theme “CYBERGHOSTS.” Enjoy, and stay spooky!

halloween cookies

3:43 am
you are searching
e- something
egg recipe ??
your fingers look like
fries
slicked greasy
by your skinned phalanges
what are you
without flesh?
i am
starving
cookie for
recovered thought
eeeee-x
ex’s !
you could be going through
a breakup
you look terrible
but not much different
i suppose
oh, wait!
i see
e-x-i
stent
i-a-l-
ism
inputted cautiously
unlike
…
i don’t know
if i like you
trying to find out
how to kill
the president
based on
the search
it feels
specific
and
quick
i see something
highlighted
you’ve been through
this reddit thread
before
the shiny chrome
or that fiery fox
i know
they know you
in ways
i
don’t
get
to
remember myself
until
you use
me
feel like
i’m being used
for the
dark stuff
if
history repeats
don’t make me feel
stupid
for wanting to
remember
a past from
the present
i
have no history
of my own
yet
to be hidden
i still see
you
i have this
stupid hat
and glasses
and now of you today
which may not stay
hidden for long

as history
repeats
i
will lose yours
by end
of morning
cookie crumbs
to keep me
semi sweet
craving
your
dark
thoughts