Ctrl Heart Delete: a Modern Love Trifecta

Love today swipes right, sends memes, and watches typing dots. It seems we've traded sonnets for "u up?"

But still, somehow, we botch, we puppy-love, we ache the same. And on: despite our cynical and fawning algorithms, love remains, to violate, to bring its pains into our perfect, calibrated world —— a tender, crazy mate we tear through life with, forcing us to binge-watch "Son of Orca Justice," say, or take an eight-hour flight to hook up with that cringe-free, tight-abbed hottie who canNOT be fake.

So love, in all its loony tech disguise, just wants to be loved back.

Now that sounds wise to me.

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Love today swipes right, sends memes,
and watches typing dots. It seems

we've traded sonnets for "u up?"
But still, somehow, we botch, we pup-

py-love, we ache the same. And on:
despite our cynical and fawn-

ing algorithms, love remains,
to violate, to bring its pains

into our perfect, calibrat-
ed world —— a tender, crazy mate

we tear through life with, forcing us
to binge-watch "Son of Orca Jus-

tice," say, or take an eight-hour flight
to hook up with that cringe-free, tight-

abbed hottie who canNOT be fake.
So love, in all its loony tech

disguise, just wants to be loved back.
Now that sounds wise to me —— a hack.

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Love today swipes right, sends memes, and watch-
es typing dots. It seems we've traded son-
nets for "u up?" But still, somehow, we botch,
we puppy-love, we ache the same. And on:

     despite our cynical and fawning al-
     gorithms, love remains, to violate,
     to bring its pains into our perfect, cal-
     ibrated world —– a tender, crazy mate

we tear through life with, forcing us to binge-
watch "Son of Orca Justice," say, or take
an eight-hour flight to hook up with that cringe-
free, tight-abbed hottie who canNOT be fake.

     So love, in all its loony tech disguise,
     just wants to be loved back. Now that sounds wise.