sirens stitched into the skyline, bleeding neon through the fog cameras blink like sleepless gods, counting every breath I log barcode skin, they scan my pulse, price tag where my name should be algorithm wrote my future, sold my past for cheap debris streets whisper in static code, every step gets translated ghosts of people walking here, bodies present, souls outdated billboards preach synthetic dreams, sugar-coated, hollow truth they sell salvation by the gram, bottle hope and market youth concrete veins run black with wires, data floods where rivers died children born with passwords first, innocence just something tried drones hover like metal vultures, circling doubt, feeding fear even silence got a signal, nothing private living here I saw a mirror glitch and stutter, couldn’t recognize my face just a composite of shadows stitched together out of place friends replaced by avatars, laughter looped and auto-tuned heartbeats synced to factory clocks, every feeling pre-consumed we revolt in quiet glitches, hidden deep in broken lines scribbling truth between the code, carving cracks in grand designs but the system learns too quickly, eats rebellion, spits it clean turns our screams to trending sounds, monetizes what we mean so I walk this hollow city, haunted by electric breath every corner feels alive, every heartbeat smells like death
