The installer
To learn to cross a road
is to download an app
and delete the installer.
You no longer ask
which foot first,
which way should I look?
The app runs.
You cross.
Life is simpler
when you stop visiting
the original files.
You don’t need to know why.
Just cross.
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Ainsley is a poet based in Hong Kong. Her poems borrow their grammar from machines and technologies to ask what stays human in memory, love, and continuity. She is honored to have her first published poem appear in ONE ART.
