[Intro – pure sound low AM static with reversed 90s ad snippets, floppy disk insert click every 8 sec, whale songs pitched down like a failing 56k modem handshake] [Part A – Partial Read] I was the kid who hid candies in the shoebox but the shoebox turned into a floppy and the floppy forgot how to be square Mom yelled from the kitchen smelling like instant soup “Turn off that damn computer!” now the soup’s a corrupted .wav and it tastes like magnetic rust (glitch chorus – repeat 3x, getting more chopped each time) stored in 1.44 mega—bytes of— n o t h i n g l e f t [Part B – Bad Sector] the park where I crashed my bike plays backwards laughter rises like tears and the scrape on my knee bleeds red pixels my first Game Boy green screen half-dead but I still hit start and a whale song whispers “game over… game over… game over…” (whales swell, distorted into high-frequency digital cries)[Bridge – Unreadable Sector – sound poetry] (low male voice, chopped/reversed, over constant disk clicks + pulsing AM static) click-clack 3.5 sector 042 bad sector bad childhood.exe not found 404 youth not found pixel of play-doh melted into binary 0101 smell of rain on a backyard that doesn’t exist bad sector bad sector retry / cancel / format Mom says “turn it off” but the button’s a deleted memory (whale loop stretched into a long “nooooo”, glitched and fragmented) [Breakdown – Overwritten] (multiple male voices overlapping, building chaos) remember the smell of warm Play-Doh? or was it the burning monitor? the dog we had is named “Untitled-1.bmp” and he barks in binary: 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 Dad formatted the hard drive without asking now I search for my birthday in the recycle bin of the sky [Outro – Total Chaos] (full collapse: whales screaming in accelerated loops, AM static maxed with overlapping reversed ads – “attention!” “don’t touch!” “limited time!” backwards – multiple voices shouting at once) insert coin to continue childhood insert coin… insert… (chaotic overlap, all at once:) turn off the computer! bad sector! bad sector! 1.44 MB of ghosts! game over! formatted forever!

1.44 MB of Ghosts