Select your username, it's time to play Alpha boy, beta zeta,omicron… what the f— Just be normal, man Normal? What does anyone know? Define normal… Spell check yourself before you tech yourself Each word a placeholder till I select myself Click-click-click, mouse wheel spinning fast The input should come first, but it comes last I'm debugging human code that no one wrote Social protocols with functions you can't quote Autocorrect decides to change my tone ERROR 404: INTENT NOT FOUND [ERROR TONE: LOW PITCH] What is the required reaction for intended response? The flowchart loops back where it doesn't belong They want A to B to C but my mind goes C z poo Q A... ABD— wait, we just skipped C, okay? Markers, signals, placeholders, and more These are the syntax of human coding Words are clusters, a web of connections Yet some of the connections are not correct (Not correct! Not correct!) Time traveler, predictor of souls I wanted to write "ghouls" but typed out "goals" <"SYSTEM MESSAGE"> Disambiguating homophones... <"/SYSTEM"> Homophone-adjacent shame is accidental discovery I bend the rules to fit my words Cram a few more syllables to be heard Precious, my rhythmic mastery of something— ERROR: WORD_RETRIEVAL_FAILURE... yadda yadda... lost it Humans are primed and prompted, need to be guided The words before your argument set the stage And if the setting's wrong, the play rings false Click-click-click— save changes? YES/NO [MOUSE CLICK TRIPLET] Wrote code to translate what I'm trying to say Switch(context) Bracket. case social: run normalPerson E X E. Forgot the bracket...[pause] Shit... I'm a listener, the scrivener that hears the goals Leveraging orbits of related things Unable to go from A to B to D Instead tracing neurons Z to J to 3 [STATIC BURST] Wouldn't you think that success would come? Ching-ching-ching, ring-ring, ka-ching But it's technically hindsight Like tripping on your shoe that you needed to trip to tie RUNNING SUBROUTINE: THOUGHT_PARALLAX.EXE Sometimes clarity arrives through error Like a glitch that shows the texture underneath A bug becomes a feature when you see That normal was never an option for me [POWER-UP SEQUENCE] Springboard, soundboard, slingshot? Choose one! Autocorrect motherfucker is my bane Constantly changing my word's refrain <DICTIONARY UPDATE required> [WARNING BEEP SEQUENCE] Incacipate... decapitate... anticipate Who designed this fucking language? design problem cite: 1, source 59-61. Submit. Sometimes action comes last, I'm working in reverse I've learned to prompt them, my fellow humans Say the patterns and structure they need To understand what I'm actually saying [ENGINE REVVING SOUND] Markers, signals, placeholders, and more This is the language I've learned to design When communication breaks, this song repeats Spell check yourself... Lyrics written by Kyle Donovan Thomas 2025 Creative Commons with attribution.
