this is heartbreak.

✤

✣

✤

i stare into my phone

and think,

“i am so small”

✤

✣

✤

i feel like

falling into the spaces

inside the “0”’s

.

or swimming

in the yellow orange

of the battery icon

on low power mode

✤

✣

✤

perhaps stepping up,

up and away

into an unknown oblivion

on the bars

that show how strong

your cell signal is

✤

✣

✤

ever most,

i wish to be broadcasted

into the outer regions

of the universe,

out, out- echoing

into the broad spectrum

of outer space

✤

✣

✤

i think of the

Poetizer app icon

and how the cursor

next to the “P”

is at a constant blink,

blinking, blinking,

as if the author

is still thinking

✤

✣

✤

.

are you still thinking?

.

✤

✣

✤

�"

Ali, channeling Khat