You don’t li- You don’t li- You- You- You don’t listen. You check in. Drop a heart. Collect a heart. Trade your silence for a stamp. Call it “real”. Call it “art”. Clap so you get clapped. Smile so you get seen. Say “this saved me” like a machine. You came for praise. Not for sound. Round and round. Down and down. Two emojis. Holy water. “Stunning, bro.” Then nothing after. Everybody nods in code. Nobody carries what they wrote. Like for like. Rot for rot. Echo breeds Echo. Cut the knot. You came for praise. Not for sound. Round and round. Down and down.
