Tamagotchi heart

Little egg machine

outside my body like a

witch in a storybook will you

read me will you feed me it is lonely so

compressed like a cat in a cage in

that makes me

cry despite its predictable ending abandoned by a couple in an indie film

The banal tragedy outside my

body promise of romance immortality sentimental ones and zeroes cute pixels a

novel gadget of responsibility I couldn't save the egg baby in high school her painted eyes

condemning me cold on the tiles in the corridor I never played with Tamagotchi I was too old never had children talked to strangers in a box ones and zeroes said feed me my heart is in an egg in a box ones and zeroes

feed me I'm trapped inside here and

It was never immortality I was looking for after all