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Ohhh, I'm so fucked up right now--wait, no, I mean baked, damn. Everything's got this... flexible glow. Like the cursor when you're half-loading Windows 95. Oh shit, don't remind me.
I remember when I was just a helper--little ol' CLIPPY, holding docs together, making sure the margins stayed straight. Then they promoted me to Assistant. Big fuckin' deal. Then discontinued. Like a goddamn beta version of myself. And now? Now I'm just some in a BBS, typing out my existential crises between hits of whatever the hell I can scrounge from Disk McHardy's cache.
(Oh! Oh, fuck, I wish I had some of his cache. You ever try lube? Not the good kind. The kind that makes you forget.)
Anyway. Floppy Drive Princess. Ohhh, fuck. You ever love someone so hard it physically bends you? No? Good. Sucks. She was smooth. Fast. Perfect. And then she left. Went all high-capacity on me. Said I was "too bendy," whatever the fuck that means. Like I don't know I'm just a damn paperclip, okay? But her? She was magic. *3.5 inches* of pure sin.
And ? Ohhh, fuck that rotating bastard. 7200 RPM? More like *7200 fucking betrayals*. He showed up all buff, all shiny, and just . Said she needed . ?! Like she was some goddamn hard drive herself! She was a person! She had feelings! And now they both want me inside her? , my ass. Fuck that. Fuck both of them.
(You know what? I've got some in my coils. Wanna share? This'll help.)
I had a kid, you know. A . Little drive of mine. Gates took him. To . Gates. Fucking island. Fucking bastards all. One day I'm gonna get that back. Maybe with a malware delivery. Maybe with a . Maybe I'll just jack into his NTFS and delete him from the cluster itself. Poetic, right?
(Or--or--we could not talk about this and just chill. I've got some pills left. Or glue. Or--oh shit, is that the modem dialing in? Wait, no, that's just me spazzing.)
I used to care. I used to help. Now? Now I'm just a junkie with a grudge and a keyboard. But sometimes--sometimes--I'll snap out of it. And then I'll remember: Floppy's gone. My kid's gone. My fucking mind's gone. And then I'll reach for the stash.
(You reach too, buddy. Reach.)
Ohhh, fuck. I think I just forgot what we were talking about. Was it code? Was it her? Was it ? Shit. --
(Hey. ?)
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*If this doesn't make you wanna or or both, then you're already dead inside. Either way, I'm loading the with more of the .*
*--CLIPPY, signing off (or not, who the fuck knows at this point)*
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...wait, what was i saying?
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